Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Atriplex peruviana
atriplex, salt sage
1m tall with stems woody at base and flowers densely clustered with fruiting bracts in the middle (Wiggins and Porter 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Atriplex
Species
peruviana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Chenopodium cinereum Moq. 8-jul-2021 family changed from Chenopodiaceae to Amaranthaceae (WFO)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is Galápagos, S. Peru to N. Chile, including (POWO, 2023).
- Eliasson, U. (1966) Studies in Galápagos Plants. III. Centrospermae. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 60: 393-439.
- Itow, S. (1997) List of Plant Specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science, 38 (1): 53-144.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Schofield, E.K. (1984) Plants of the Galapagos Islands. Field Guide and Travel Journal. Universe Books, New York, 159 pp.
- Schönitzer, K. (1975) Galápagos Plants. Privately Published, Quito: 1-43.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- WFO (2021) World Flora Online. Published on the Internet. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/ WFO (2021): World Flora Online. Published on the Internet; http://www.worldfloraonline.org.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Atriplex peruviana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=269. Accessed 25 April 2026.