Cornulaca monacantha

Cornulaca monacantha

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: Cornulaca
Species: Cornulaca monacantha

Name

Cornulaca monacantha Delile, Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. 206. (1813)

• Type: Egypt "...dans la haute Egypte et près des pyramides de Gyzeh et de Saqqarah", A. Delile. Types: P, MPU007245. possible Isotype: E00296920. Syntype: MPU007246.

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Kochia monacantha (Delile) Steud., Nomencl. Bot. [Steudel], ed. 2. 1: 848. (1840)
• Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2019, Govaerts 2019)
  • Cornulaca arabica Botsch., Kew Bull. 23(3): 439. (1969)
    • Type: Saudi Arabia, Eastern Province. Al Hadidah. 16-10-1965, Mandaville 467. Holoype: K000899498, Isotype: BM000950624.
  • Salsola ferox Delile ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 218. (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
  • Traganum nudatum Sieber ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 172. (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
• ref. Hedge 1997, but accepted by Hassler 2019, Govaerts 2019:
  • Cornulaca amblyacantha Bunge, Anabas. Rev. 88. 1862 [Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 4(11)]. (1862)
• ref The Plant List:
  • Cornulaca monacantha var. diacantha Maire, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afrique N. 34: 190. (1943)
    • Type: Sahara occidental: Mauritania, Ouissa. Sférat (pointe S-E) - Oum Rouessine. 26.11.1936, M. Murat #1575. MPU005487, P00487045. Syntype: Kahal Morra, 21.11.1934, Rolland 17. Syntype: MPU005486

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Africa Northern Africa Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara West Tropical Africa Mali, Mauritania, Niger Northeast Tropical Africa Chad, Sudan Asia-Temperate Western Asia Iran, Iraq, Palestine (C-Israel), Sinai Arabian Peninsula Gulf States (Bahrain,United Arab Emirates, Qatar), Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent Pakistan (Baluchistan) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Botschantzev, V.P. 1969. A New Species of Cornulaca Del. (Chenopodiaceae) from Saudi Arabia. Kew Bulletin 23(3): 439–440. DOI: 10.2307/4117181 Reference page. 
• Bunge, A.v. 1862. Anabasearum revisio. Mémoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg. Ser. 7. 4(11): 1–104. BHL Reference page. : 88.
• Raffeneau-Delile, A. 1813. Flore d'Ègypte. Explication des planches. In: Description de l'Egypte ... Histoire Naturelle 2: 145–320. Text. Plates. Reference page. : 206, pl. 22 fig. 3.
• Maire, R.C.J.E. 1943. Contributions à l'étude de la Flore de l'Afrique du Nord (Fascicule 33) [nos. 3445–3488]. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 34(8): 181–195. Biblioteca Digital Reference page. : 190
• 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. : 172, 218
• Steudel, E. 1840. Nomenclator botanicus. Seu: synonymia plantarum universalis, enumerans ordine alphabetico nomina atque synonyma, tum generica tum specifica, et a Linnaeo et a recentioribus de re botanica scriptoribus plantis phanerogamis imposita. Editio secunda ex nova elaborata et aucta. Pars I: Lit. A–K. 852 pp. Typis et sumptibus J. G. Cottae, Stuttgartiae [Stuttgart] et Tubingae [Tübingen]. BHL Reference page. : 848.

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. 
• Hedge, I.C. 1997. Cornulaca monacantha. 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. : 352–353.
• 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. : Cornulaca monacantha.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2019. Cornulaca monacantha. 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. 19. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Cornulaca monacantha. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 19 2019.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Cornulaca monacantha in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 19. Reference page. 
• The Plant List 2013. Cornulaca monacantha in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 19.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Cornulaca monacantha. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 19 Mar. 2019.

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