2269.000 Salsola L. - Saltworts

Townsend, C.C. (1988) Amaranthaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(1)

Description of the genus

Annual or more often perennial herbs or shrubs, usually pubescent. Leaves usually more or less fleshy, entire, alternate or sometimes opposite, sessile, narrow, often scale-like, sometimes linear-subulate. Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled, sometimes aggregated in a spiciform way towards ends of branchlets, subtended by two relatively large bracteoles. Perianth (4) 5-partite, the lobes nearly always each developing in fruit above the middle a scarious horizontally spreading wing. Fruit with membranous or somewhat fleshy pericarp. Seeds normally vertically compressed; testa membranous, embryo spiral.

Worldwide: Species c 150, cosmopolitan.

Botswana: 8 taxa.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
albida Botsch.
aphylla L. f.
etoshensis Botsch.
glabrescens Burtt Davy
kali L.
namaqualandica Botsch.
rabieana C.A. Sm.SW,SE
tuberculata Fenzl ex Moq.

Other sources of information about Salsola:

Our websites:

Flora of Zimbabwe: Salsola

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Salsola
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Salsola
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Salsola
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Salsola
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Salsola
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Salsola
JSTOR Plant Science: Salsola
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Salsola
Plants of the World Online: Salsola
Tropicos: Salsola
Wikipedia: Salsola

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Botswana: Genus page: Salsola.
https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=521, retrieved 19 March 2024

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