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Caroxylon salsola

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Name

Identification
Salsola aphylla L.f. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Caroxylon salsola (L.f.) Thunb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Salsola aphylla
  • Caroxylon salsola
  • Caroxylon salsoa

Flora

Entry for SALSOLA aphylla Linn. f. [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 433, (1912) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
SALSOLA aphylla Linn. f. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Suppl. 173;—Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 67; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 61; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 89.
Caroxylon Salsola Thunb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Diss. Med. Afr. (1785), 8; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 176.
Information
a much-branched shrub, reaching a height of 6 ft.; branches slender, terete, not jointed, pallid, pubescent; leaves alternate, ovate, minute, amplexicaul, densely pubescent; flowers solitary; bracteoles suborbicular, keeled, pubescent; perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, slightly pubescent; filaments dilated below; anthers oblong, with a minute terminal appendage; disk fleshy, obtusely 5-lobed; style elongate; stigmas subulate; wings of the fruiting perianth inserted below the middle of the segments, obovate, membranous, yellowish or dull purple, the two inner narrower than the others. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Laingsburg Div.: Witteberg Range, near Matjesfontein, Rehmann, 2947! Beaufort West Div.; Karoo at Beaufort West, Henderson, 5! 6! Albert Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 1383!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; between the Kloof Village in the Asbestos Mountains and English Drift, Burchell, 2106! Orange River Colony; Mud River Drift, Rehmann, 3612! Transvaal; near Bloemhof, Burtt-Davy, 1496!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Forsyth! Zeyher, 1445!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; between Buffels River and Pedros Kloof, Drège! Van Rhynsdorp Div.; near Rhynsdorp, Schlechter, 8091!
Notes
Vernacular name “ Brak Ganna ” (Henderson).

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