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HALOPEPLIS Bunge [family CHENOPODIACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
HALOPEPLIS Bunge [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 64.
Information
Flowers very small, 2-sexual. Perianth obconic, with 3 teeth. Stamens 1 or 2. Ovary ovoid, superior; style short, with 2 short linear branches; ovule 1, suspended on a basal funicle. Seed erect, orbicular, compressed; embryo peripheric round the albumen. Annuals or shrubs, glabrous or nearly so; branches not jointed. Leaves 1/10 in. long, obovate or orbicular, amplexicaul and appearing perfoliate in the tropical African specimens. Bracts in small spikes, with usually 3 flowers under each.
Range
Species 3, in the Mediterranean region, Arabia and Persia.
HALOPEPLIS Bunge [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
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