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Suaeda fruticosa

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Identification
Isotype of Suaeda fruticosa Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Hepper, Suaeda vermiculata Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Boulos,
Related name
  • Salsola fruticosa
  • Suaeda aegyptiaca
  • Chenopodium sp.
  • Suaeda vera
  • Dondia wilsonii
  • Chenopodium fruticosum
  • Chenopodium not on sheet
  • Schanginia aegyptiaca
  • Suaeda fruticosa
  • Suaeda vesceritensis
  • Schanginia baccata
  • Suaeda not on sheet
  • Salsola altissima
  • Suaeda lamondiae
  • Suaeda articulata
  • Suaeda baccata
  • Suaeda vermiculata
  • Suaeda pruinosa
  • Schoberia fruticosa
  • Suaeda volkensii

Flora

Entry for SUAEDA monoica Forssk. ex J. F. Gmel. [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
SUAEDA monoica Forssk. ex J. F. Gmel. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], (1791). Fig. 70.
SUAEDA paulayana [family CHENOPODIACEAE], sensu Chiov. in Fl. Somala 1: 294 (1929), non Vierh.
SUAEDA fruticosa [family CHENOPODIACEAE], sensu Chiov. in Fl. Somala 2: 380 (1932), etc., non Forssk. ex J. F. Gmel.
Information
Shrub 1.2–5(–6) m high, trunk often 5 cm or more thick. Leaves linear to linear–oblong, ± flattened on both sides, 13–33(–40) x 1.5–3 mm, tip acute or obtuse, dull to bright green, usually not glaucous, progressively shorter on flowering shoots. Flowers unisexual, usually quite numerous, sometimes contiguous into dense spikes. Male flowers developing first, perianth subglobose, c. 3 mm in diam., deeply divided; anthers filling perianth; ovary reduced to peltate-topped column with rudimentary stigmas. Female flowers much smaller, perianth undivided, tightly enclosing ovary to give appearance of naked flower, staminode-like appendages minute or absent, stigmas 3(–4), linear. Utricle tightly enclosed within membranous perianth, laterally compressed. Seed vertical, 1.5–1.8 x 1–1.3 mm, glossy black.
Range
N1–3; S2, 3 Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, south to Mozambique, north to Syria, east to south India & Sri Lanka.
Altitude range
near sea level–460 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Friis & al. 4680; Gillett & Watson 23870; Hemming 2047.
Notes
Harun, horun (Som.). Most of the material referred to as S. fruticosa in the literature on the flora and vegetation of Somalia belongs here.

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