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Salicornia virginica

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Name

Identification
Salicornia virginica L. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Arthrocnemum macrostachyum
  • Helianthus angustifolius
  • Halocnemum strobilaceum
  • Rudbeckia angustifolia
  • Salicornia glauca
  • Salicornia herbacea
  • Coreopsis angustifolia
  • Salicornia indet.
  • Salicornia virginica
  • Salicornia cruciata

Flora

Entry for ARTHROCNEMUM macrostachyum (Moric.) C. Koch [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by I. Friis & M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ARTHROCNEMUM macrostachyum (Moric.) C. Koch [family CHENOPODIACEAE], (1853);
Salicornia macrostachya Moric. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], (1820);. [type as above]
Arthrocnemum fruticosum (Moric.) Moq. var. macrostachyum [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Chenopodearum Monogr. Enum.: 111 (1840). Fig. 68. [type as above]
?Salicornia glauca J. Stokes [family ], (1812), non Arthrocnemum glaucum (Del.) Ung.-Sternb. (1874)
Salicornia virginica Forssk. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], (1775), non L. (1753);
Salicornia glauca Del. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], (1813), non Stokes (1812);. [type as above]
Arthrocnemum fruticosum (Del.) Moq. var. glaucum [family CHENOPODIACEAE], op. cit.: 111 (1840);. [type as above]
Arthrocnemum glaucum (Del.) Ung.-Sternb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], (1874). [type as above]
Information
Much branched shrub, 0.3–1 m high; stems erect to ascending, sometimes rooting at base. Internodes cylindrical or club-shaped, up to 7 mm long, glaucous, free leaf-tips forming short wide 2-lobed cupule. Flowering branches erect with terminal, cylindrical, obtuse spikes 30–60 x 3–4 mm. Flowers in 3’s, protruding by up to 1/3rd the length of the internode; perianth 3-dentate, conical. Pericarp membranous. Seed c. 1 mm long, black, shining, densely papillate, verrucose on back.
Range
N1–3; S1 Mediterranean coasts, Red Sea coasts, extending north to Jordan Valley.
Altitude range
near sea level–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Beckett 792; Gillett & Beckett 23342; Hemming 1785.
Notes
Horun (Som.). This species has a confused nomenclatural history which is set out more fully than usual.

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