Chenopodium capitatum from Thomé (1885)

Chenopodiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. This family has been recognized by most taxonomists, but not by the APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998. The APG has placed these plants in family Amaranthaceae. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1448x2408, 769 KB) Name Chenopodium capitatum (= Blitum capitatum) Family Amaranthaceae Original book source: Prof. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1448x2408, 769 KB) Name Chenopodium capitatum (= Blitum capitatum) Family Amaranthaceae Original book source: Prof. ... A botanical name is a formal name conforming to the ICBN. As with its zoological and bacterial equivalents it may also be called a scientific name. Botanical names may be in one part (genus and above), two parts (species) or three parts (below the rank of species). ... A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships — including domestic partnership, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the Roman Empire). ... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003). ... A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. ... The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group is an international group of systematic botanists who have come together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants in the light of the rapid rise of molecular systematics. ... Genera See text The family Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, is a taxon of dicotyledon flowering plants included among the Caryophyllales and containing about 65 genera and 900 species. ...

Some fourteen hundred species were accepted in this family. Food species include Quinoa, Kañiwa, Fat Hen, Good King Henry, and Epazote (Chenopodium spp.), Orache (Atriplex spp.), spinach (Spinacia oleracea), and, of greatest commercial importance, the crops derived from Beta vulgaris: Sugar beet, Beet, Mangelwurzel and Chard. Binomial name Chenopodium quinoa Willd. ... Binomial name Chenopodium pallidicaule Aellen Kañiwa is a species of goosefoot, similar in character and uses to the closely related to quinoa. ... Binomial name Chenopodium album L. Fat Hen (Chenopodium album), also called white goosefoot, lambs quarters, lambsquarters, or pigweed, is a fast-growing, upright, weedy annual species of goosefoot, very common in temperate regions, growing almost everywhere in soils rich in nitrogen, especially on wasteland. ... Binomial name Chenopodium bonus-henricus L. Good King Henry, also called mercury, lincolnshire spinach or poor mans asparagus is a species of goosefoot native to much of central and southern Europe. ... Binomial name Chenopodium ambrosioides L. Epazote or Mexican Tea (Chenopodium ambrosioides) is a herb native to Central America and southern Mexico. ... Species (Alaska orach) (Crownscale saltbush) (Garden or Red orach) (Prostrate orach) (Redscale orach) (Siberian saltbush) many more Atriplex is a plant genus whose hundred or so members go by the common names of saltbush and orach (or orache). ... Binomial name Spinacia oleracea L. Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to central and southwestern Asia. ... Two sugar beets - the one on the left has been cultivated to be smoother than the traditional beet, so that it traps less soil. ... Binomial name Beta vulgaris L. The beet (Beta vulgaris) is a flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to the coasts of western and southern Europe, from southern Sweden and the British Isles south to the Mediterranean Sea. ... Binomial name Beta vulgaris Mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel (Beta vulgaris), is a root vegetable of the family Chenopodiaceae, genus Beta (the beets). ... Trinomial name Beta vulgaris var. ...

Genera of some importance include Atriplex, Beta, Chenopodium, Halogeton, Halosarcia, Salicornia, Salsola, Sarcocornia. Species About 100-200 species, including: Atriplex alaskensis (Alaska Orach) Atriplex amnicola (River Saltbush) Atriplex californica Atriplex calotheca Atriplex canescens (Four Wing Saltbush) Atriplex confertifolia Atriplex coronata (Crownscale Saltbush) Atriplex glabriuscula Atriplex halimus Atriplex heterosperma Atriplex hortensis (Garden or Red Orache) Atriplex hymenelytra Atriplex laciniata (Frosted Orache) Atriplex lentiformis Atriplex... There are other uses of the word Beta Species (not necessarily a complete list) Beta adanensis Beta atriplicifolia Beta lomatogona Beta nana Beta patellaris Beta patula Beta procumbens Beta trigyna Beta trojana Beta vulgaris Beta is a genus in the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae. ... Species See text Chenopodium is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae, known generically as the Goosefoots. ... Halogeton is the common name for the weed Halogeton glomeratus. ... Species See text Halosarcia is a genus of succulent, salt tolerant plant, the majority of Halosarcia species are endemic to Australia. ... Species See text. ... Species About 100-130 species; see text Salsola (Saltwort*, Tumbleweed or Russian thistle) is a genus of herbs, subshrubs, shrubs and small trees in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Africa, Asia, and Europe. ... Species See text. ...

External links :

• Chenopodiaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 30st May 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
• Chenopodiaceae in the Flora of North America
• Chenopodiaceae in the Flora of China
• links at CSDL