Amaranthaceae
Soda

Soda rosmarinus (Bunge ex Boiss.) Akhani

First published in Front. Plant Sci. 11-546518: 30 (2020)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Medit. to Aghanistan and Socotra. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Ghazanfar, S. A. & Edmondson, J. R (Eds). (2016) Flora of Iraq, Volume 5 Part 1: Elatinaceae to Sphenocleaceae.

Morphology General Habit
Much-branched shrub up to 1.5–2 m, stems ± whitish, with greyish flaking bark
Morphology Leaves
Leaves opposite, sessile, fleshy, linear, 12–30 × 2–3 mm, deciduous
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers arising in groups of 3 in leaf axils, subsessile
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
Perianth segments partly united, pinkish at anthesis, developing in fruit into 5 unequal spreading reniform wings, purplish or later brownish, 8–12 mm in diameter.
Ecology
Sandy, gypsaceous or stony desert, alluvial flats with saline or calcareous substrata, alt. 0–100 m;
Phenology
Flowering: Aug.–Oct.; fruiting: Nov.–Dec.
Distribution
Iraq: Widespread across the Deserts and Alluvial Plains of Iraq. Widely distributed in Irano-Turan and Eastern Mediterranean region. Egypt and SW Asia eastwards to Afghanistan, S Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Vernacular
SHNAN (Rawi & Alkas 16249, nr Darraji), AWAISJA (Gillett 9901, Thirthar).
[FIQ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Iraq

    • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images