Salicornia brachiata

Salicornia brachiata

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: Salicornioideae
Tribus: Salicornieae
Genus: Salicornia
Species: Salicornia brachiata

Name

Salicornia brachiata Roxb., Hort. Bengal. 79 (1814), nomen / Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall., i. 82 (1820)

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Arthrocnemum indicum sensu Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. [Thwaites] 246. (1861), nom. inval. (and later homonym of Arthrocnemum indicum (Willd.) Moq. 1840.)
    • Thwaites cites Moquin 1849, name not intended as new species.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh Indo-China Myanmar [Burma] (Rakhine) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Roxburgh, W. 1814. Hortus Bengalensis, or a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta. Serampore. BHL Reference page. : 79, nomen
• Roxburgh, W. (†) 1820. Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants. [Edited by Carey, W.] Vol. 1. 493 pp. Serampore. BHL Reference page. : 82
• Thwaites, G.H.K. 1858–1864. Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae: an enumeration of Ceylon plants, with descriptions of the new and little-known genera and species, observations on their habitats, uses, native names, etc. VIII+483 pp. Dulau & Co., London. BHL Reference page. : 246

Additional references

• Kadereit, G., Ball, P.W., Beer, S.S., Mucina, L., Sokoloff, D.D., Teege, P., Yaprak, A.E. & Freitag, H. 2007. A taxonomic nightmare comes true: phylogeny and biogeography of glassworts (Salicornia L., Chenopodiaceae). Taxon 56(4): 1143–1170. DOI: 10.2307/25065909 ResearchGate Reference page. 

Links

• Hassler, M. 2018. Salicornia brachiata. 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 May 16. Reference page. 
• Plants of the World Online (POWO) 2019. Salicornia brachiata. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 04.
• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Salicornia brachiata. Published online. Accessed: May 16 2018.

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