Salicornia natalensis

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 natalensis

Subspecies: S. n. subsp. affinis – S. n. subsp. natalensis

Name

Salicornia natalensis Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb., Vers. Syst. Salicorn. 62. (1866)

• Type: South Africa. "Port Natal", Drege s.n. Lectotype: LE. Possible Co-type: K000243905.

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Arthrocnemum natalense (Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb.) Moss, J. S. African Bot. 20: 15. (1954)
  • Sarcocornia natalensis (Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb.) A.J.Scott, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 75(4): 368. (1978)
• Heterotypic
  • Arthrocnemum africanum Moss ex Fourc., Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 20: 19. (1941)
    • Type: South Africa. Pensinsula, Fishhoek, Feb 1918, Moss 14243. Holotype: BOL.
  • Salicornia indica Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docum. (Drège) 159, 217. (1843), nom. inval. (and later homonym of Salicornia indica Willd. 1799)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Africa South Tropical Africa S-Mozambique Southern Africa South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, N-Cape Prov., W-Cape Prov., E-Cape Prov.), Namibia References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Drège, J.F. 1843. Zwei pflanzengeographische Documente. Flora 26 (29). Besondere Beigabe, Band II: 1–230. BHL Reference page. : 159 , 217
• Fourcade, G.H. 1941. Checklist of the flowering plants of the Divisions of George, Knysna, Humansdorp and Uniondale. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 20. Reference page. : 19
• Moss, C.E. 1954. The species of Arthrocnemum and Salicornia in Southern Africa. Journal of South African Botany 20: 1–22. Archive Reference page. : 15
• Scott, A.J. 1978. Reinstatement and revision of Salicorniaceae J. Agardh (Caryophyllales). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 75(4): 357–374. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1977.tb01493.x Reference page. : 368
• Ungern-Sternberg, F. 1866. Versuch einer Systematik der Salicornieen. Inaug. Dissertation, Dorpat: Karow. (online) Reference page. : 62

Additional references

• Piirainen, M., Liebisch, O. & Kadereit, G. 2017. Phylogeny, biogeography, systematics and taxonomy of Salicornioideae (Amaranthaceae/Chenopodiaceae) – A cosmopolitan, highly specialized hygrohalophyte lineage dating back to the Oligocene. Taxon 66(1): 109–132. DOI: 10.12705/661.6 Reference page. 
• Steffen, S., Mucina, L. & Kadereit, G. 2010. Revision of Sarcocornia (Chenopodiaceae) in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique. Systematic Botany 35(2): 390–408. Reference page. : 401.
• Steffen, S., Ball, P.W., Mucina, L. & Kadereit, G. 2015. Phylogeny, biogeography and ecological diversification of Sarcocornia (Salicornioideae, Amaranthaceae). Annals of Botany 115(3): 353–368. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu260 PMC: 4332613 . Reference page. 

Links

• Hassler, M. 2018. Salicornia natalensis. 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 19. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Salicornia natalensis. Published online. Accessed: May 19 2018.