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Name

Identification
Salsola dendroides Pall. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Helmut E. Freitag, Salsola laricina Pall. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Helmut E. Freitag,
Related name
  • Salsola dendroides
  • Salsola unrecorded
  • Salsola laricina
  • Salsola zeyheri
  • Salsola vermiculata
  • Salsola africana

Flora

Entry for SALSOLA africana (Brenan) Botsch. [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
SALSOLA africana (Brenan) Botsch. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], (1965);
SALSOLA dendroides Brenan var. africana [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1953: 433 (1953). Fig. 72. [type as above]
Information
Dense shrub to 1.3 m high, side branches patent, pubescent at least when young, ± 3-sided. Leaves alternate or opposite, scale-like or boat-shaped, 1–4 x 1–1.5 mm, glabrescent or pubescent, often in congested short lateral shoots. Flowers sessile, solitary in upper leaf-axils, often crowded ± into spikes. Perianth 2–2.75 mm long. Fruit including wings 6–10 mm in diam., wings reniform or transversely elliptic, 2–4 x 1.5–7 mm, closely veined; perianth-lobes with conspicuous scarious margins. Seed 1.5–1.7 mm in diam., brown.
Range
S3 (only recorded from Belesc Cogani)
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 16304.
Distribution (external)
Kenya

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