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Salsola verrucosa

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Identification
Salsola gemmascens (Moq.) Botsch. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Victor Petrovič Botschantzev, Isotype of Caroxylon nodulosum Moq. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Salsola verrucosa C.A.Mey. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Caroxylon nodulosum
  • Salsola verrucosa
  • Salsola gemmascens

Flora

Entry for SALSOLA dendroïdes Pall. [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1954) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
SALSOLA dendroïdes Pall. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Illustr. 22, t. 14 (1803); Iljin in Fl. U.R.S.S. 6: 255 (1936). Type: Russia, Pallas (holo. where ? Not found at BM.)
SALSOLA verrucosa M. Bieb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Nat. Moscou 1: 103 (1812?); Boiss., Fl. Or. 4: 961 (1879). Type: Russia, Caspian–Caucasian plains, Bieberstein (? LE, holo.)
Information
Shrub up to about 1.5 m. high, profusely and densely branched, the branchlets erecto-patent, pubescent at least when young, whitish to pale brown; the branchlet-systems often pyramidal in outline. Leaves very small, fleshy, very shortly linear to boat-shaped or scale-like, about 1–4 (–8) mm. long and about 1–1.5 mm. wide, glabrous or pubescent; the upper leaves appearing in dense tiny clusters owing to the presence of very abbreviated axillary shoots. Flowers solitary in upper axils, about 2–2.75 mm. long, sessile, often aggregated, and seeming spicate. Sepals 5, glabrous to pubescent. Fruit (including wings) about 6–10 mm. in diameter; wings encircling the fruit, each wing reniform to transversely elliptic or deltoid-obovate, 2–4 mm. long, 1.5–7 mm. wide, scarious with a sheeny surface, very closely veined, erose on outer edge. Seed 1.5–1.7 mm. in diameter, brown.
Range
DISTR. (of species as a whole). Russia from Siberia (as far E. as Balkhash and the Syr Daria foothills) to the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, Turkish Armenia and Kurdistan, Persia, and in East Africa; the Arabian record is an error
Notes
Asiatic material of S. dendroïdes seems to differ solely by minor vegetative differences: the leaves on the flowering shoots are all or mostly scale-like, about 1–2 mm. long and 1–1.5 mm. wide, the clusters of leaves more tightly bunched than in var. africana; on the lower branches the foliage is similar to that of var. africana, except that the alternate arrangement seems constant.

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