Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1052 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 472 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 406 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 29, 141 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Obione Gaertn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Theleophyton (Hook.f.) Moq. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 82-83, 85, 86 [secondary reference]

common name: Salt Bush [n/a] common name: Orache [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 408 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 17 [secondary reference]

• Type: Atriplex hortensis L.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 182-183 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Latin name of the Garden Orach (A. hortensis, L.), from the older form of the word, Atriplexum.

Aellen, P. (1938), Revision der australischen und neuseelandischen Chenopodiaceen I: Theleophyton, Atriplex, Morrisiella, Blackiella, Senniella, Pachypharynx. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 68(5): 349-415 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 293 [secondary reference]

common name: Saltbush [n/a]

• Etymology: "Latin name of the Garden Orach (A. hortensis, L.); Greek atraphaxos and andraphaxis; probably of Persian origin.)"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 163 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 107 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 573-574 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 157-158 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 263, 264 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 100 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Chenopodiaceae (Chenopodium, Dysphania, Rhagodia, Sclerobitum, Monolepis, Atriplex, enchylaena, Neobassia, Stelligera, Threlkeldia, Babbagia, Halosarcia, Tecticornia, Sclerostegia, Pachycornia, Salsola) ). Flora of Central Australia: 54 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 116-118, 125 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 84-132 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Theleophyton (Hook.f.) Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Neopreissia Ulbr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Haloxanthium Ulbr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Senniella Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pachypharynx Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Blackiella Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atriplex subg. Blackiella (Aellen) Maire legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 81-82 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 208-216 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 63 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Obione Gaertn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Blackiella Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Morrisiella Aellen legitimate

Wilson, Paul G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 98 [secondary reference]

Jarvis, C.E., Barrie, F.R., Allan, D.M. & Reveal, J.L. (1993), A List of Linnaean Generic Names and their Types. Regnum Vegetabile 127: 22 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Type: A. hortensis L. - Lectotype (McNeill & al. in Taxon 32: 552. 1983): Herb. Clifford: 469, Atriplex No. 1 (BM)."

Kuhn, U. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Chenopodiaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 267, Fig. 50 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 80 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 131-133 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 208 [secondary reference]

common name: Saltbushes [n/a]

de Lange, P.J., Norton, D.A. & Crowcroft, G.M. (2000), Taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of Atriplex billardierei and A. hollowayi sp. nov. (Chenopodiaceae) in Australasia. New Zealand Journal of Botany 38(4): 553 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 555 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Obione Gaertn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ambrina Spach nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Theleophyton (Hook.f.) Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Neopreissia Ulbr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Haloxanthium Ulbr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Morrisiella Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Senniella Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pachypharynx Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Blackiella Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atriplex subg. Blackiella (Aellen) Maire legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA, Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 80 [secondary reference]

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