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Salsola flavescens

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Name

Identification
Salsola foetida Del. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Ch. Sauvage, Salsola flavescens Cav. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by M. Guèye, 2008
Related name
  • Salsola vermiculata
  • Salsola flavescens
  • Salsola foetida
  • Juncus paui
  • Salsola microphylla

Flora

Entry for SALSOLA vermiculata Linn. [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 76, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
SALSOLA vermiculata Linn. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 223. —Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 181; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 962; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 186.
SALSOLA flavescens Cav. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Ic. t. 288.
Information
A much-branched undershrub. Branches alternate, ascending, not jointed, pubescent. Leaves alternate or fascicled, ovate, slightly dilated and keeled at the base, 2–4 lin. long, more or less hairy. Flowers in dense spikes; bracts elliptic, very obtuse, keeled, membranous at the margin. Perianth 5-lobed; segments ovate-triangular, subacute, wings inserted below the middle, obovate. Filaments long, exserted, dilated at the base; anthers oblong, not appendiculate. Disk none. Wings of fruiting perianth inserted at the middle of the lobes, about 2 lin. long, the two inner slightly smaller.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land banks of the Nile near Tingur, Ehrenberg ex Ascherson.

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