《中国植物志》|| 藜科 CHENOPODIACEAE ||藜组 Sect. Chenopodium ||杖藜 Chenopodium giganteum D. Don

16. 杖藜（辞海）红盐菜（广西）图版20：7-9
Chenopodium giganteum D. Don. Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 75. 1825; Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 (2): 70. 1894; Hand.-Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7: 1372. 1936; 秦岭植物志1 (2): 175. 1974.——C amaranticolor Caste et Reyn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 54: 181. 1907; Bail. Man. Cult. Pl. 353. 1949.——C. mairei Levl. Cat. Pl. du Yun-Nan 35. 1915-16.
一年生大型草本，高可达3米。茎直立，粗壮，基部直径达5厘米，具条棱及绿色或紫红色色条，上部多分枝，幼嫩时顶端的嫩叶有彩色密粉而现紫红色。叶片菱形至卵形，长可达20厘米，宽可达16厘米，先端通常钝，基部宽楔形，上面深绿色，无粉，下面浅绿色，有粉或老后变为无粉，边缘具不整齐的浅波状钝锯齿，上部分枝上的叶片渐小，卵形至卵状披针形，有齿或全缘；叶柄长约为叶片长度的2/3-1/2。花序为顶生大型圆锥状花序，多粉，开展或稍收缩，果时通常下垂；花两性，在花序中数个团集或单生；花被裂片5，卵形，绿色或暗紫红色，边缘膜质；雄蕊5。胞果双凸镜形，果皮膜质。种子横生，直径约1.5毫米，黑色或红黑色，边缘钝，表面具浅网纹。花期8月，果期9-10月。
本种为栽培种，甘肃、陕西、辽宁、河南、湖南、湖北、贵州、四川、云南、广西等省区见有栽培并已成为半野生状态。世界各国也普遍栽培，其来源不明。
嫩苗可作蔬菜，种子可代粮食用，茎杆用做手杖（称藜杖）。

《云南植物志》|| 藜科 Chenopodiaceae nom. conserv. ||藜属 Chenopodium L. ||杖藜 Chenopodium giganteum D. Don

4. 杖藜（辞海）
红盐菜（广西），红心灰菜
Chenopodium giganteum D. Don (1825); Moq. in DC. (1849); Hand.-Mazz. (1936); 秦岭植物志 (1974); 中国植物志 (1979)*; D. G. Long (1984).
Chenopodium amaranticolor Coste et Reyn. (1907); Bailey (1949)*; Chenopodium mairei Lévl. (1915—1916).
一年生大型草本，高可达3米。茎直立、粗壮，基部直径达5厘米，具条棱及绿色或紫色条纹，上部多分枝，幼嫩时顶端的嫩叶有彩色密粉而呈现紫红色。叶片菱形至卵形，长可达20厘米，宽可达16厘米，先端通常钝，基部宽楔形，上面深绿色、无粉，下面浅绿色，有粉或无粉，叶缘为不整齐的浅波状钝锯齿，上部分枝上的叶片渐小，卵形至卵状披针形，有齿或全缘；叶柄长5—8厘米。花序为顶生大型圆锥状花序，多粉、开展，果时通常下垂；花两性，在花序中数个团集或单生；花被裂片5，卵形，绿色或暗紫红色，边缘膜质；雄蕊5。胞果双凸透镜形，果皮膜质。种子横生，直径约1.5毫米，黑色或红黑色，边缘钝，表面具浅网纹。花期8月，果期9—10月。
昆明栽培。我国甘肃、陕西、辽宁、河南、湖南、湖北、贵州、四川西南部及广西等省区常有栽培并已成为半野生状态。世界各国也普遍栽培，其来源不明。
幼苗做蔬菜；种子代粮；茎杆古人用作手杖，轻而坚。

《Flora of China》|| Chenopodiaceae || Chenopodium ||杖藜 Chenopodium giganteum

12. Chenopodium giganteum D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 75. 1825.

杖藜 zhang li

Chenopodium amaranticolor Coste & Reynier; C. mairei H. Léveillé.

Herbs annual, large, to 3 m tall. Stem erect, much branched above, stout, reddish green or reddish purple striate, ribbed, base to 5 cm in diam. Leaf blade abaxially light green, adaxially dark green, rhombic to ovate, to 20 × 16 cm, 1.5-2 × as long as petiole, abaxially farinose or glabrescent, adaxially not farinose, base broadly cuneate, margin irregularly undulate serrate, apex usually obtuse; upper leaf blades gradually becoming smaller, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, reddish or golden yellow vesicular hairy when young, margin serrate or entire. Inflorescence of large, terminal panicles, farinose, usually pendulous in fruit. Flowers bisexual, several per glomerule or solitary. Perianth segments 5, green or dark purple, ovate, margin membranous. Stamens 5. Utricle lenticular; pericarp membranous. Seed horizontal, black or red-black, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., reticulate lineate, rim margin obtuse. Fl. Aug, fr. Sep-Oct.

Long cultivated in China and becoming naturalized. Beijing. Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hunan, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan [native origin unknown; commonly cultivated in many countries of the world].

This plant most probably represents a cultivar, which originated in India, of the Chenopodium album aggregate. Similar cultivated plants of E Asia were described as C. centrorubrum (Makino) Nakai. Other similar plants (probably of different origin) are known as C. amaranticolor, C. purpurascens Jacquin, etc. A new taxonomic revision of cultivated members of the C. album aggregate is badly needed.

The stout stems are used for making walking sticks.