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Suaeda vermiculata

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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
  • Chenopodina unrecorded
  • Suaeda vermiculata
  • Suaeda pruinosa
  • Suaeda vera
  • Salsola vermiculata
  • Suaeda fruticosa
  • Suaeda mollis
  • Salsola indet.
  • Suaeda volkensii
  • Suaeda monodiana
Common name
  • suid (RM) zoggid (RM) (MALI, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • solid (AN) (MAURITANIA, ARABIC (Hassaniya)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for SUAEDA vermiculata 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 vermiculata Forssk. ex J. F. Gmel. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], (1791).
SUAEDA fruticosa Forssk. ex J. F. Gmel. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], (1791).
Information
Shrub to 1 m high, usually ± sprawling. Leaves cylindrical or nearly so, up to 25 x 0.5–1.5 mm, often ± deflexed, glaucous, progressively decreasing along flowering stems. Flowers bisexual, in rather small clusters, rarely contiguous into spikes. Perianth subglobose, deeply divided, c. 2.5 mm in diam.; ovary free from perianth, stigmas 3, filiform, c. 1.5 mm long. Fruiting material from Somalia not seen, elsewhere utricle thin-walled, seed usually vertical, c. 1.5 mm in diam., glossy black.
Range
N1–3; ?S1 Red Sea coasts and north to the Jordan valley.
Altitude range
near sea level–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 1620; McKinnon S/141, S/151.
Notes
Darran, duran ad (Som.). The Eritrean and Somali material lacks the subglobose uppermost leaves of most Asian material. Brenan (in herb.) tentatively assigned two collections from along the lower Wabe Shebele in Ethiopia to this species. They differ from more typical material by the rather distinctive erect habit, uniformly narrow very glaucous leaves and the apparently horizontal seed. These specimens could represent an additional taxon also likely to occur in Somalia. One specimen from S1 (Puccioni & Stefanini 300, from north of Luuq) is immature, but probably belongs here. Specimens cited by Chiovenda in Fl. Somala 1: 294 (1929) as “? Suaeda volkensii ” C. B. Cl. (Puccioni & Stefanini 297, from N of Luuq) and (op. cit.: 295) as “ Suaeda vermiculata ” (Puccioni & Stefanini 20, from N3, Hafun, and Puccioni & Stefanini 110, from S2, Mahaddei) have not been traced, but may possibly also belong here.

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