Caroxylon aphyllum

Caroxylon aphyllum (b,c)

Caroxylon aphyllum

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: Caroxyleae
Genus: Caroxylon
Species: Caroxylon aphyllum

Name

Caroxylon aphyllum (L.f.) Tzvelev, Ukrayins'k. Bot. Zhurn. 50(1): 80. (1993)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Salsola aphylla L.f., Suppl. Pl. 173. (1782, as "1781")
    • Type: South Africa: Caput bonae Spei. [Cape of Good Hope s.l.]. C.P. Thunberg s.n.; Holotype: LINN-HL315.26. Isotypes: BM-000910448, H-1039586, LD1260085, LE-00011773, PRE-52570. Global Plants lists BM-000910447! also as isotype, which is not correct (Mucina 2017: 156).
• Homotypic
  • Salsola caroxylon Moq., Chenop. Monogr. Enum. 143. (1840), nom. superfl. et illeg.
• Heterotypic (ref. Mucina 2017)
  • Caroxylon salsola Thunb., Nova Genera Plantarum 2: 37 (1782).
    • Lectotype (designated by Mucina 2017: 169): [South Africa]. Promont. Bonae Spei [Cape of Good Hope]: Thunberg s.n. Lectotype: 07-809; Isolectotypes: S07-808; S07-810; S-G-7074.
  • Salsola aphylla var. canescens Fenzl ex Drège
  • Caroxylon brevifolium St.-Lag., Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 7: 121. (1880), nom. illeg. (proposed as a replacement name for Caroxylon salsola)
  • Salsola caffra Sparrman, in Resa Goda Hopps Udden 1772–76, 1: 310. (1783).
    • Type not designated
  • Caroxylon caffrum (Sparrman) Mucina, Phytotaxa 312(2): 158. (2017)
  • Salsola aphylloides L.f., nom. inval. in schedis (LINN-HL315.25, HL315.26 "(Salsola aphylloides CBS [Caput Bonae Spei] T[hunberg] 354)", HL315.27), Art. 38.1(a) of ICN
  • Salsola aphylloides L.f. ex B.D.Jacks. in Index Linn. Herb. (1912), nom. nud.
  • Salsola eriosepala C.A.Sm. ex Ulbr. in Engl. & Prantl in Natürl. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 16c: 566 (1934), nom. nud.
• (+ ref. Hassler 2019)
  • Chenopodium caroxylon D'Urban, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 8: 272. (1865)
  • Salsola africana hort. ex Moq., DC. Prod. 13(2): 176. (1849), nom. inval in syn.
  • Suaeda africana hort. ex Moq., DC. Prod. 13(2): 158. (1849), nom. inval in syn.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Africa Southern Africa Namibia, Botswana, South Africa (ES, FS, LIM, NC, WC) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Tzvelev, N.N. 1993. Zametki o marevykh (Chenopodiaceae) vostochnoy Evropy = Заметки о маревых Восточной Европы. (Notes on Chenopodiaceae of eastern Europe.) Ukrayins'kyi Botanicnyi Zhurnal 50(1): 78–85. Reference page. : 80
• Linnaeus, C. (filius) 1782 ["1781"]. Supplementum Plantarum systematis vegetabilium editionis decimae tertiae, generum plantarum editionis sextae, et specierum plantarum editionis secundae. [XVI]+468 pp. Impensis Orphanotrophei, Brunsvigae [Braunschweig]. BHL Reference page. : 173.
• Moquin-Tandon, A. 1840. Chenopodearum Monographica Enumeratio. P.-J. Loss, Paris. BHL Reference page. : 143
• Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Salsolaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 41–219. Masson, Paris. BHL Reference page. : 158, 176
• Saint-Lager, J.B. 1880. Réforme de la nomenclature botanique. Annales de la Société Botanique de Lyon 7: 1–154. BHL Reference page. : 121
• Sparrman, A.E. 1783. Resa till Goda Hopps-udden, Södra polkretsen och omkring Jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen åren. 1772–1776, 1. Anders J. Nordstroem, Stockholm, 766 pp. Reference page. : 310
• Mucina, L. 2017. Caroxylon (Chenopodiaceae s.str.) in continental southern Africa and Madagascar: a preliminary nomenclatural synopsis and biogeographical considerations. Phytotaxa 312(2): 151–178. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.312.2.1 Reference page. : 158
• D’Urban, W.S.M. 1865. On the naturalized weeds of British Kaffraria. Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany 8: 267–272. BHL Reference page. : 272

Additional references

• Mucina, L. 2017. Caroxylon (Chenopodiaceae s.str.) in continental southern Africa and Madagascar: a preliminary nomenclatural synopsis and biogeographical considerations. Phytotaxa 312(2): 151–178. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.312.2.1 Reference page. : 156

Links

• Hassler, M. 2018. Caroxylon aphyllum. 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. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 June 27. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Caroxylon aphyllum. Published online. Accessed: Jun. 27 2018.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Caroxylon aphyllum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 07. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2015. Caroxylon aphyllum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 04 December 2015.

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