Chenopodium hookerianum Moq. in DC., Prodr. 13(2): 68 (1849)

Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Liu, Pei-Liang & Kushunina, Maria, 2019, Taxonomic revision of Chenopodiaceae in Himalaya and Tibet, PhytoKeys 116, pp. 1-141 : 31

Chenopodium hookerianum Moq. in DC., Prodr. 13(2): 68 (1849)

Notes.

The species was described from Nepal, ex herb. Hooker (P00606414) (see link to the specimen https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p00606414) and the type material bears a plant fragment collected at the flowering stage. This name has never been mentioned in the recent floristic and taxonomic accounts except the Flora of the USSR ( Iljin 1936), where it was synonymised with Chenopodium giganteum (= C. bengalense ). However, the protologue of C. hookerianum ( Moquin-Tandon 1849) and a fragment of the type specimen do not demonstrate the features of the species described by Moquin well (plant height, seed characters etc.). We are still not sure how to treat C. hookerianum .