Does anyone have Flora of North America, Vol 4 in hand? The online key for Atriplex has a bug - item 3 refers to itself: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=103110&key_no=4 3 (3) Leaf blades orbiculate or suborbiculate, flabellate to broadly obtuse at base; fruit flask-shaped in outline; Milk River Valley, Upper Missouri, south to Colorado [an Atriplex look-alike, Suckleya suckleyana (Torrey ex A. Gray) Rydberg] .......... (3) There should be some species as a reference in this item. I wonder if this bug is in the print version, too?
Well, small errors occur here and there in the online versions of Flora of North America. I have detected two ones (see below). I reported of the first one, and the bug got fixed lastly. Vol. 2: A key to the species of the genus Dryopteris. Vol. 3: The name of the own elm of the continent, Ulmus americana, is lacking in the generic key! Cheers, Harri Harmaja http://www.luomus.fi/users/harmaja/vasculars.htm
Thanks, Michael and Harri, yes, it should be Suckleya suckleyana, indeed. Probably their system did not allow reference to a different subtree, allowing, however, cycles in the key. :) Andrey
Thanks for checking, Daniel! Not surprising - the online version is quite sufficient for most people. I happened to buy one volume of FNA to cover a family missing from "Intermountain Flora" and discovered that unlike IF, in which every species is supplied with drawings, the FNA is almost completely devoid of it. No sense to use the paper version when everything is online. Andrey