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Published In: Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 13(2): 207. 1849. (Prodr.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
General/Distribution: Probably only 3 or 4 species in N. Africa eastwards to SW and C Asia. Related to Girgensohnia which has opposite leaves; and to Salsola which has a horizontal seed (cf. Freitag & Khani, Plant. Syst. Evol. 155: 49. 1987).

 

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Annual herbs or small stiffish shrubs, glabrous or with papillae or with villous hairs in leaf axils. Stems not jointed, rigid; branches thorny or not. Leaves sessile, alternate, slightly fleshy or not, linear-filiform, subamplexicaul. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary and sessile in upper leaf axils., subtended by 2 leaf-like bracts.. Perianth deeply 5-lobed; lobes membranous in flower and dorsally winged in fruit; wings equal or unequal, coloured or not. Stamens 5; connective with a short non-vesicular terminal appendage. Seeds vertical compressed; embryo spiral; endosperm absent.
 

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