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CHENOPODIUM
(
G
)
Family:
CHENOPODIACEAE
chēn, = a gander, goose; pous, podos, = a foot; -ium, characeteristic of. (shape of the leaves)
(
LS
,
BL
,
Le
)
Chenopodium album (alien and naturalised)
(
La
)
White Goosefoot(
PS
) Withondebossie
Location: (
F
,
P
)
albus, = white, properly dead white, not shining. (white, particularly a dull rather than a glossy white)
(
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(
PS
) Stinking Goosefoot
Location: (
F
)
multus, = much, great, many; findo, fidi, fissum = to cleave, split, part, separate, divide; a cleft, slit, fissure; (split-) (cleft in many parts)
(
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
)