Oxybasis rubra

Oxybasis rubra[1](syn. Chenopodium rubrum), common names red goosefoot or coastblite goosefoot,[2] is a member of the genus Oxybasis, a segregate of Chenopodium (the goosefoots). It is native to North America and Eurasia.[2] It is an annual plant.[3]

Oxybasis rubra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Oxybasis
Species:
O. rubra
Binomial name
Oxybasis rubra
(L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch
Synonyms
  • Chenopodium rubrum L.
  • Atriplex rubra (L.) Crantz
  • Blitum polymorphum var. rubrum (L.) Beck
  • Blitum rubrum (L.) Rchb.
  • Botrys rubra (L.) Lunell
  • Orthospermum rubrum (L.) Opiz
  • Orthosporum rubrum (L.) T. Nees

Conservation status in the United States

It is listed a special concern and believed extirpated in Connecticut.[4] It is listed as endangered in New Jersey, and as threatened in Maine, New Hampshire, and in New York (state).[5]

Native American ethnobotany

The Goshute Shosone of Utah use the seeds for food.[6] The name of the plant in the Goshute Shoshone language is on’-tǐm-pi-wa-tsǐp, on’-tǐm-pi-wa, on’-tǐm-pi-a-wa or on’-tǐm-pai-wa.[7]

References
  1. Susy Fuentes-Bazan, Pertti Uotila, Thomas Borsch: A novel phylogeny-based generic classification for Chenopodium sensu lato, and a tribal rearrangement of Chenopodioideae (Chenopodiaceae). In: Willdenowia. Vol. 42, No. 1, 2012, p. 15-16.
  2. "Oxybasis rubra". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 2013-07-05.
  3. "Plants Profile for Chenopodium rubrum (red goosefoot)". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  4. "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved 28 January 2018. (Note: This list is newer than the one used by plants.usda.gov and is more up-to-date.)
  5. "Plants Profile for Chenopodium rubrum (red goosefoot)". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  6. Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1911, The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405., page 366
  7. Chamberlin, Ralph Vary (1911). "The Ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah" (PDF). Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association Vol II, part 5. Retrieved 2007-11-12.


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