Chenopodium benthamii
Chenopodium benthamii is a species of shrub endemic to midwest Western Australia.
Description
It grows as a shrub from 40 centimetres to two metres high, leathery, elliptical leaves, and panicles of green flowers.Taxonomy
It was first published as a variety of Rhagodia crassifolia by George Bentham in 1870, based on a specimen collected from Dirk Hartog Island by Allan Cunningham. In 1983 Paul G. Wilson promoted it to specific rank. After phylogenetical research, Fuentes-Bazan et al. included this species in genus Chenopodium as Chenopodium latifolium. but this name was a later homonym and thus illegitimate. In 2017, Iamonico & Mosyakin replaced it by the name Chenopodium benthamii, in honour of George Bentham.Two subspecies are currently recognised:
the autonym Chenopodium benthamii subsp. benthamii, and Chenopodium benthamii subsp. rectum Iamonico & Mosyakin, which was published by Wilson in 1983.