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CHENOPODIUM
(
G
)
Family:
CHENOPODIACEAE
chēn, = a gander, goose, named from its wide bill;
pous, podos, = a foot;
-ium, characeteristic of.
(shape of the leaves)
(
LS
,
BL
,
Le
)
Chenopodium album
(
La
)
White Goosefoot, Withondebossie (
PS
)
Location: (
F
,
P
)
albus, = white, properly dead white, not shining.
(white, particularly a dull rather than a glossy white)
(Alien and naturalised)
(
ld
,
BL
)
Chenopodium botryodes [Was C. rubrum]
(
G
)
Location: (
P
)
botrys, = a cluster o bunch of grapes;
botry-, -botrys, = bunch, raceme;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
botryoides, = like a bunch of grapes.
(Alien)
(
LS
,
BL
,
Cw
)
Chenopodium multifidum
(
La
)
Stinkhondebossie, Stinking Goosefoot (
PS
)
Location: (
F
)
multus, = much, great, many;
findo, fidi, fissum = to cleave, split, part, separate, divide; a cleft, slit, fissure.
(split-)
(cleft in many parts)
(Alien)
(
ld
,
BL
)
Chenopodium rubrum [Now C. botryodes]
(
La
)
Location: (
P
)
rubeo, rubrus, = to be red or ruddy.
(Alien)
(
ld
,
Cw
)
Chenopodium vulvaria
(
La
)
Location: (
P
)
volva, vulva, = a wrapper, covering, integument;
-arius, = indicates connection or possession.
(
ld
,
BL
)