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This species is accepted, and its native range is Iran to NW. Pakistan.

[FSOM]

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Habit
Subshrub to 50 cm high; all parts mealy when young, later glabrescent
Leaves
Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite; petiole 1.2 mm long, leaf-blade 7–11 x 6–8 mm, base broadly cuneate (rarely some leaves with a ± hastate base) or subcordate (not usual in Flora area), tip rounded to emarginate, margin entire, lateral veins not visible
Inflorescences
Inflorescence not clearly delimited from vegetative part, lower clusters of flowers in axils of leaf-like bracts
Flowers
Flower clusters usually with many male flowers and a few female Male perianth 5-merous, c. 1 mm in diam. Fruiting bracteoles on 0.5–1 mm pedicel, broadly ovoid, 4–6 x 4–6 mm, base cuneate, tip rounded, margin entire, often ± reflexed, veins usually obvious but sometimes central part conspicuously muricate or tuberculate, tubercles usually irregularly lobed and then veins obscured.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan

Atriplex griffithii Moq. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Jan 1, 1937 Griffith, W. [1751], Afghanistan K000898554 holotype
Jan 1, 1937 Aucher Eloy, P.M.R. [5268] K000898553
Griffith, W. [1751], Afghanistan K000898555
s.coll. [s.n.] K000898556

First published in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 102 (1849)

Accepted by

  • Miller, A.G. & Morris, M. (2004). Ethnoflora of Soqotra Archipelago: 1-759. The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
  • Freitag, H. & al. (2001). Flora of Pakistan 204: 1-217. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.
  • Hedge, I.C., Akhani, H., Freitag, H., Kothe-Heinrich, G., Podlech, D., Rilke, S. & Uotila, P. (1997). Flora Iranica 172: 1-371. Naturhistorisches Museums Wien.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Freitag, H. & al. (2001). Flora of Pakistan 204: 1-217. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by I. Friis & M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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