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Salicornia perrieri

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Name

Identification
Salicornia perrieri A.Chev. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name);
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Flora

Entry for Salicornia perrieri A. Chev. [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 1, page 133, (1988) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
Salicornia pachystachya [family CHENOPODIACEAE], sensu Tölken in Bothalia 9: 298 (1967) pro parte quoad “second form”, non Salicornia pachystachya Bunge ex Ungern-Sternb.
Salicornia perrieri A. Chev. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in. Rév. Bot. Appliq. 2: 749 (1922).—Macnae & Kalk, Nat. Hist. Inhaca I., Moçamb.: 144 (1958). TAB. 39 fig. B. Type from Madagascar.
Information
Herb 10–25 cm. high; main stem erect with numerous lateral branches, the lower mostly widely spreading and decumbent. Fertile spikes many, 1–5 cm. long, thickening in fruit, but less than in S. pachystachya, 3–4 mm. in diam., not cylindrical (at least when dry) and mostly distinctly tapering towards apex.
Habitat
Salt-marshes by the sea.
Range
Possibly in Tanzania and Zanzibar
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo fr. 28.xii.1934, Wager (K).Mozambique Z Kongone, mouth of Zambezi, fl. & fr. 13.xii.1859, Kirk (K).
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Natal
Notes
This is an unsatisfactory taxon, requiring further careful study in the field. I have little doubt that it corresponds with form 2 of S. pachystachya as defined by Tölken in Bothalia 9: 298 (1967) and would have been disposed to follow his view except that the fruiting spikes are (in the herbarium) clearly narrower than in S. pachystachya, not regularly cylindrical, and with a strong terndency to taper towards the apex. The record of “S. herbacea L.” from Mozambique, in P.O.A.C.: 171 (1895) on the authority of Engler, by Baker & Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 6, 1: 86 (1909) may be referable here. It almost certainly does not relate to the true S. herbacea, a European species.

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