Taxon: Atriplex nummularia Lindl.

Genus:

Atriplex

Family:

Chenopodiaceae

Subfamily:

Chenopodioideae

Tribe:

Chenopodieae

Nomen number:

6030

Place of publication:

T. L. Mitchell, J. exped. trop. Australia 64. 1848

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

11-mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 04-nov-2008

Species priority site is:

National Arid Land Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PARL)

Accessions:

12 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(=) Atriplex johnstonii C. B. Wolf

Common names:

giant saltbush (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
old-man saltbush (Source: Names Beetle) - English
oumansoutbos (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001) - Afrikaans
da yang zhou bin li (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
Weed: (fide Weeds SAfr 2001)

Distributional Range:

Native

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia]

Cultivated

(also cult.)

Naturalized

Africa

NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa

Asia-Temperate

WESTERN ASIA: Israel

Northern America

SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California]
Mexico

Southern America

SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Chile

References:

Beetle, A. A. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31. 1970 (Names Beetle)
Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt. 1999- (F Egypt)
Danin, A. Distribution atlas of plants in the Flora Palaestina area. (Atlas Palest)
FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
George, A. S., ed. 1984. Flora of Australia. 1980- (F Aust) 4:130.
Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. 2003 (Pl SAfr ed2)
Henderson, L. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. 2001 (Weeds SAfr 2001)
Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
Instituto de Botánica Darwinion Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. (F ConoSur)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Atriplex nummularia Lindl. :

Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=6030. Accessed 7 junio 2026.