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Salsola diffusa

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Name

Identification
Salsola diffusa Thunb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Bassia diffusa (Thunb.) Kuntze [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Chenolea diffusa (Thunb.) Thunb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Salsola sericea Ait. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Kochia sericea (Ait.) Schrad. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Salsola canescens Desf. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Bassia diffusa
  • Salsola canescens
  • Salsola diffusa
  • Chenolea diffusa
  • Salsola sericea
  • Kochia sericea

Flora

Entry for CHENOLEA diffusa Thunb. [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
CHENOLEA diffusa Thunb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Nov. Gen. 10
Echinopsilon diffusus Moquin [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 137.
Echinopsilon sericeus Moquin [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Chenop. Enum. 89.
Salsola diffusa Thunb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Prodr. 48, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 243.
Salsola sericea Ait. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 317.
Kochia sericea Schrad. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Neues Journ. 1809, 87.
Chenopodium sericeum Spreng. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Syst. i. 921.
Information
stem decumbent, flexuous, terete, reddish, canescent when young; leaves oblong or lanceolate, 6 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. wide, acute, sessile, fleshy, the upper erect, imbricate and clothed with silvery silky hairs, the lower spreading or reflexed and less hairy; nerves inconspicuous; flowers axillary, solitary, minute; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse, silky; spinules minute, obtuse, rather villous. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Cradock Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 3055! 3140!COAST REGION Cape Div.; Millers Point, Wolley-Dod, 2397! about the ponds and at Salt River, Burchell, 666! Knysna Div.; at the mouth of the Knysna River, Krauss, 786, ex Moquin. Uitenhage Div., Zeyher, 501! Prior! East London Div.; near the mouth of the Nahoon River, Galpin, 5674! Div.? Redhouse, Mrs. Paterson, 287!EASTERN REGION Natal; near Durban, Wood, 901!KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; bank of the Moshowing River between Takun and Melito, Burchell, 2306!

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