Haloxylon persicum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Salsoloideae
Tribus: Salsoleae
Genus: Haloxylon
Species: Haloxylon persicum

Name

Haloxylon persicum Bunge ex Boiss. & Buhse, Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 12: 189. (1860)

Type: (Persia: S of Kavir) "Grosse Salzwüste (Kavir) bei Dschendak (Jandaq) und Enarak (Anarak), gesellig wachsend im Flugsande, April 1849". F. Buhse. Hototype: LE

Synonyms

Homotypic
- Arthrophytum persicum (Bunge ex Boiss. & Buhse) Sav.-Rycz., Bot. Mater. Gerb. Glavn. Bot. Sada RSFSR 5: 45 (1924)
Heterotypic
- Arthrophytum ammodendron var. acutifolium Minkw., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11(296–300): 478 (1912)
- Arthrophytum acutifolium (Minkw.) Minkw. in B.A.Fedtschenko, Rastit. Turkestana: 360 (1915)
- Arthrophytum arborescens Litv., Trav. Mus. Bot. Acad. Petersb. 11: 44 (1913)
- Anabasis saxaul Fisch. ex Ulbr. in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 16c: 572 (1934), in syn. nom. inval.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Africa
- Northern Africa
  - Egypt (Eastern Desert)
Asia-Temperate
- Middle Asia
  - Kazakhstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- Western Asia
  - Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq (S-Iraq), Palestine (Israel, Jordan), Sinai
- Arabian Peninsula
  - Gulf States (United Arab Emirates, Qatar), Oman, Saudi Arabia
- China
  - Xinjiang
Asia-Tropical
- Indian Subcontinent
  - Pakistan (Baluchistan)

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

Boissier, P.E. & Buhse, F.A. 1860. Aufzählung der auf einer Reise durch Transkaukasien und Persien gesammelten Pflanzen. Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 12: [i**–v**], [i*], [i]–lxvii, [1]–246, [i]–viii, [i]–lv, [i*–ii*], [i]–ii, pl. 1–10. BHL Reference page. : 189.
Fedtschenko, B.A. (Федченко, Б.А.) 1915. Растительность Туркестана. Иллюстрированное пособiе для опредѣленiя растенiй, дикорастущихъ в Туркестанскомъ краѣ и Киргизскихъ степяхъ [Rastitel'nost Turkestana: Illiustrirovannoe posobie dlia opredieleniia rastenii, dikorastushchikh v Turkestanskom kraie i Kirgizskikh stepiakh]. Petrograd: K. Mattisen. 824 pp. (Russian) PDF. Reference page. : 360.
Litvinov, D.I. (Литвиновъ, Д.И.) 1913. О родѣ Arthrophytum Schrk и о включенiи въ него рода Haloxylon Bnge [On the genus Arthrophytum and on the inclusion in it of the genus Haloxylon Bnge.] Trudy Botanicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk) 11: 27–49. BHL Reference page. : 44
Minkwitz, Z.A. 1912. Über zwei Abarten des Turkestanischen Saxaul. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 11(296–300): 478. BHL Reference page. : 478.
Savicz-Ryczegorski, V.M. 1924. in Botanicheskie Materialy Gerbariya Glavnogo Botanicheskogo Sada RSFSR (Not. Syst. Herb. Petrop.) 5: 45. Reference page.
Ulbrich, O.E. 1934. Chenopodiaceae, in: Engler, A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (eds.): Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, ed.2. 16c, Engelmann, Leipzig: 379–584. Reference page. : 572,

Additional references

Akhani, H., Edwards, G. & Roalson, E.H. 2007. Diversification of the Old World Salsoleae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae): Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Nuclear and Chloroplast Data Sets and a Revised Classification. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168(6): 931–956. DOI: 10.1086/518263 ResearchGate Reference page. : 946.
Hedge, I.C. 1997. Haloxylon persicum. In:
Hedge, I.C., Akhani, H., Freitag, H., Kothe-Heinrich, G., Podlech, D., Rilke, S. & Uotila, P. 1997. Chenopodiaceae. In: Rechinger, K.H. (ed.): Flora Iranica Vol. 172. 371 pp., 212 tab., Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz. Reference page. : 318.
Freitag, H., Hedge, I.C, Jafri, S.M.H, Kothe-Heinrich, G., Omer, S. & Uotila, P. 2001. Chenopodiaceae. In: Ali, S.I. (ed.): Flora of Pakistan 204. 217 pp., Department of Botany/Missouri Botanical Press, Karachi/St. Louis, ISBN 1-930723-10-5 eFloras. Reference page. : Haloxylon persicum.
Zhu, G., Mosyakin, S.L. & Clemants, S.E. 2004.
'eFloras 2008. Haloxylon persicum in Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Haloxylon persicum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 27. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Haloxylon persicum. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 27 2019.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Haloxylon persicum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 27. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Haloxylon persicum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 Mar. 2019.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Haloxylon persicum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

Vernacular names

العربية: رمث فارسي
català: Saxaul blanc
Deutsch: Weißer Saxaul
English: white saxaul
فارسی: زردتاغ
suomi: Valkosaksauli
עברית: עציון פרסי
қазақша: Ақ сексеуіл
ไทย: ฮาโลไซลอนขาว
中文: 白梭梭

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