- Family: Amaranthaceae Juss.
Salsola L.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Eurasia to Australia, Sahara & Sahel to NE. & E. Tropical Africa, California.
[FTEA]
Chenopodiaceae, J. P. M. Brenan. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1954
- Habit
- Annual or more often perennial herbs or shrubs, usually more or less pubescent
- Leaves
- Leaves usually more or less fleshy, entire, alternate or sometimes opposite, sessile, narrow, sometimes scale-like
- Flowers
- Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled, subtended by relatively large bracteoles, hermaphrodite
- Calyx
- Calyx (4-) 5-partite, the lobes almost always each developing in fruit a scarious horizontally spreading wing above the middle
- Stamens
- Stamens 5, sometimes fewer
- Stigma
- Stigmas 2, very rarely 3
- Fruits
- Fruit with membranous or somewhat fleshy pericarp
- Seeds
- Endosperm absent. Embryo spiral Seeds normally “horizontal” (i.e. vertically compressed); testa membranous
[FZ]
Chenopodiaceae, J. P. M. Brenan. Flora Zambesiaca 9:1. 1988
- Habit
- Annual or more often perennial herbs or shrubs, usually pubescent.
- Leaves
- Leaves usually more or less fleshy, entire, alternate or sometimes opposite, sessile, narrow, often scale-like, sometimes linear-subulate.
- Flowers
- Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled, sometimes aggregated in a spiciform way towards ends of branchlets, subtended by two relatively large bracteoles, hermaphrodite.
- Perianth
- Perianth (4) 5-partite, the lobes nearly always each developing in fruit above the middle a scarious horizontally spreading wing.
- Stamens
- Stamens 5, rarely fewer.
- Stigma
- Stigmas 2, very rarely 3.
- Fruits
- Fruit with membranous or somewhat fleshy pericarp.
- Seeds
- Endosperm absent. Embryo spiral. Seeds normally “horizontal”(i.e. vertically compressed); testa membranous.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Habit
- Herbs or shrubs
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), sessile, entire
- Inflorescences
- Flowers usually solitary in leaf axils (sometimes in heads or spikes), subtended by 2 bracteoles, bisexual, (4–)5-merous; perianth-segments ± scarious, each usually developing a prominent transverse wing in fruit; stamens 5, anthers sometimes with appendages; stigmas 2, ± linear, with or without style
- Fruiting calyx
- Fruiting perianth with ± membranous, non-indurated lower part (or if indurated then bracts and bracteoles of similar texture); bottom of perianth rounded or tapering
- Perianth
- Utricle included within persistent perianth, subglobose, often with thicker upper part
- Seeds
- Seed subglobose, horizontal; testa membranous; embryo in conical spiral.
- Distribution
- Over 120 species, most numerous in the drier parts of Asia, especially towards Iran, extending into Europe and N Africa and with a secondary centre in southern Africa.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Madeira, Maluku, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Guinea, New South Wales, North Caucasus, Northern Territory, Northwest European R, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Queensland, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Somalia, South Australia, South European Russi, Spain, Sulawesi, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Victoria, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Alabama, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Azores, British Columbia, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile South, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Free State, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Labrador, Lesotho, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Namibia, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Switzerland, Tennessee, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
- Salsola acanthoclada Botsch.
- Salsola africana (Brenan) Botsch.
- Salsola algeriensis Botsch.
- Salsola angusta Botsch.
- Salsola arbusculiformis Drobow
- Salsola australis R.Br.
- Salsola austroiranica Akhani
- Salsola austrotibetica Sukhor.
- Salsola baranovii Iljin
- Salsola brevifolia Desf.
- Salsola chellalensis Botsch.
- Salsola chinghaiensis A.J.Li
- Salsola collina Pall.
- Salsola cruciata L.Chevall. ex Batt.
- Salsola cyrenaica (Maire & Weiller) Brullo
- Salsola daghestanica (Turcz. ex Bunge) Lipsky
- Salsola divaricata Masson ex Link
- Salsola drummondii Ulbr.
- Salsola euryphylla Botsch.
- Salsola foliosa (L.) Schrad. ex Schult.
- Salsola glomerata (Maire) Brullo
- Salsola × gobicola Iljin
- Salsola grandis Freitag, Vural & Adigüzel
- Salsola griffithii (Bunge) Freitag & Khani
- Salsola gymnomaschala Maire
- Salsola gypsacea Botsch.
- Salsola halimocnemis Botsch.
- Salsola hartmannii Sukhor.
- Salsola ikonnikovii Iljin
- Salsola jacquemontii Moq.
- Salsola junatovii Botsch.
- Salsola kali L.
- Salsola kerneri (Wol.) Botsch.
- Salsola komarovii Iljin
- Salsola laricifolia Litv. ex Drobow
- Salsola longifolia Forssk.
- Salsola mairei Botsch.
- Salsola makranica Freitag
- Salsola masclansii G.Monts. & D.Gómez
- Salsola melitensis Botsch.
- Salsola monoptera Bunge
- Salsola omanensis Boulos
- Salsola oppositifolia Desf.
- Salsola pachyphylla Botsch.
- Salsola papillosa (Coss.) Willk.
- Salsola paulsenii Litv.
- Salsola pellucida Litv.
- Salsola pontica (Pall.) Iliin
- Salsola praecox (Litv.) Litv.
- Salsola praemontana Botsch.
- Salsola ryanii Hrusa & Gaskin
- Salsola sabrinae Mosyakin
- Salsola schweinfurthii Solms
- Salsola sinkiangensis A.J.Li
- Salsola squarrosa Steven ex Moq.
- Salsola strobilifera (Benth.) Mosyakin
- Salsola subglabra Botsch.
- Salsola tamamschjanae Iljin
- Salsola tamariscina Pall.
- Salsola tragus L.
- Salsola tunetana Brullo
- Salsola turcica Yild.
- Salsola verticillata Schousb.
- Salsola webbii Moq.
- Salsola zaidamica Iljin
- Salsola zygophylla Batt.
Salsola L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 222 (1753)
Accepted by
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 6, 1: 87.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 104 (1754).
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by I. Friis & M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Chaudhary & Akram in Proc. Saudi Biol. Soc. 9: 57–89 (1986).
- Botschantzev in Bot. Zurn. 54: 989–1000 (1969)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Gen. Pl., ed. 5, 104 (1754)
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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