View source for Grayia ← Grayia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Grayia |accepted_authority=Hooker & Arnott |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Bot. Beechey Voy., |place=387. 1841 |year=1841 }} |common_names=Hopsage |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Grayia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Grayia]]</div></div> |etymology=for Asa Gray, 1810–1888, botany professor at Harvard, for many years the pre-eminent American botanist |volume=Volume 4 |mention_page=page 260, 304 |treatment_page=page 306 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> dioecious or monoecious, spinescent; herbage scurfy-puberulent when young, mostly with branched hairs, becoming glabrate. <b>Stems</b> erect, much branched, woody throughout, not jointed, forming a rounded bush; younger branches ribbed, rigid; lateral branches becoming spinescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, succulent or coriaceous; blade with midveins prominent, spatulate to oblanceolate, sometimes narrowly so, base gradually tapering to petiole, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, spikelike clusters. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual; staminate in 2–5-flowered clusters in bract axils, perianth 4(–5)-parted, equaling or slightly longer than stamens, stamens 4–5; pistillate in 1–few-flowered clusters per glomerule, each closely invested by 2 wholly united bracts, perianth absent; stigma 2-lobed. <b>Fruiting</b> structure: bracts forming flattened, samaralike fruiting structure around utricle, margins thickened, spongy within; pericarp free. <b>Seeds</b> vertical, compressed-lenticular, seed coat brown, tuberculate; embryo annular; perisperm copious. <b>x</b> = 18.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=w United States. |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Grayia |author=Noel H. Holmgren |authority=Hooker & Arnott |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Chenopodiaceae |distribution=w United States. |reference=None |publication title=Bot. Beechey Voy., |publication year=1841 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_588.xml |genus=Grayia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Chenopodiaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Chenopodiaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Grayia.