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Suaeda asphaltica (Boiss.) Boiss.

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Published In: Flora Orientalis 4(2): 938. 1879. (Apr.-Mai 1879) (Fl. Orient. [Boiss.])

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Nomenclature :

1. Suaeda asphaltica (Boiss.) Boiss., Fl. Orient. 4: 938 (1879). Chenopodina asphaltica Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. ser. 1, 12: 98 (1853). Type: Judaea, ad littoral septentrionalia lacus Asphaltitis (northern beach of the Dead Sea) (G). [Plate 228]

Common name :

Dead-Sea Sea-Blite; אוכם מדברי.

Habitat :

Hab.: Deserts, frequently on gypsaceous soils and steep slopes. Negev Highlands, S. Negev, Lower Jordan Valley, Samarian and Judean Deserts, Dead Sea Valley, Arava Valley, deserts of Moav and Edom.

Area distribution :

Saharo-Arabian. Sub-endemic, growing mostly in the Judean and Syrian deserts.

Notes :

One of the most striking salt-resistant shrublets in the Judean Desert. The dominant plant of the Suaeda asphaltica community. Before the foliage is shed in summer, the plants appear as black dots in the grey desert landscape.

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Glabrous dwarf-shrub, up to 80 cm. Stems much branched; branches whitish. Leaves 0.5-1.8 (-3) x 0.1-0.2 cm., terete, green, turning blackish when dry. Inflorescences sometimes leafy; bracteoles minute, scarious; the 2 lateral flowers in each cluster 3-bracteolate, the middle one ebracteolate. Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth segments 2-3 mm., ovate, obtuse, white-margined, connate to middle. Stigmas 3. Seeds, horizontal, beaked, smooth, glossy. Fl. January-May.

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