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Published In: 1797. Name publication detail
 

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Nomenclature:

1. Salicornia perennans Willd., Sp. Pl. ed. 4: 1(1): 24 (1797). S. europaea auct. non L., Sp. Pl. 3 (1753). S. herbacea auct. non (L.) L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 5 (1762); Boiss., Fl. Orient. 4: 933 (1879). Type: [Icon.] Pallas, Reise Russ. Reich. 1: t. A fig. 1. 1771 (lectotype); “NW Kazakhstan, Prov. Uralsk, trockengefallenes Ural-Altwasser gegenüber Kalmykovo”, 11.9.1996, H. Freitag 28.130 (epitype B, the left-hand plant). [Plate 227] 

Common name:

 Slender Glasswort; Marsh Samphire; Chicken Claws; פרקן עשבוני.

Habitat:

Hab.: Marshes. Acco Plain, Carmel Coast, Sharon Plain, Negev Highlands, Lower Jordan Valley, Dead Sea Valley, Edom.

Area distribution:

 Mediterranean and Euro-Siberian (introduced elsewhere). 

Notes:

 Our perception of the annual species of Salicornia in the Flora Palaestina area is based upon Kudereit & Freitag (2012).

This is one of the leading pioneers, occupying drying up saline puddles. Fleshy stems eaten. Used in medicine (herba salicorniae herbaccae).


 

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Annual, glabrous, 15-40 cm. Stems indurated at base, procumbent to erect, more or less decussately and divaricately branched. Branches light green, rarely scarlet. Leaves about 1.5 mm., membranous at margins. Spikes cylindrical, slightly tapering at top. Flowers in groups (cymes) of 3, arranged in a floral cavity, the middle flower projecting above the lateral ones. Perianth of middle flower obovoid-rhomboidal. Stamen mostly 1. Seeds ovoid, with short protuberances look like hooked hairs. Fl. August-November.

 
 
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