Salsola tragus

Salsola tragus

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: Salsola
Species: Salsola tragus

Name

Salsola tragus L., Cent. Pl. II. 13 (1756), as "Tragus"

• Type: LINN Linn. 315.3; (Degen, 1937).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Kali tragus (L.) Scop., Fl. Carniol., ed. 2. 1: 175. (1771).
  • Salsola kali subsp. tragus (L.) Čelak., Prodr. Fl. Böhmen 2: 155. (1871).
  • Salsola kali var. brevimarginata (L.) W.D.J.Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Helv., ed. 2. 2: 693. (1844). nom. superfl.
  • Salsola kali var. glabra (L.) Ten., Syll. Pl. Fl. Neapol. 124. (1831).
  • Salsola kali var. tragus (L.) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 187. (1849).
  • Salsola ruthenica Iljin (1934), Sornye Rasteniia Tadzhikistana 2: 137. 1934. nom. illeg. superfl.
  • Salsola ruthenica var. tragus (L.) Morariu, Fl. Republ. Socialist. Romania 1: 581. (1952). nom. illeg. superfl.
  • Salsola kali subsp. ruthenica (Iljin) Soó & Jáv., Magyar Nov. Kez. 2: 786. (1951).
• Heterotypic
  • Salsola pestifer A. Nelson, in Coulter & Nelson, New Man. Bot. Centr. Rocky Mts.: 169. (1909).
  • Salsola tragus subsp. iberica Sennen & Pau, Bull. Acad. Inst. Géogr. bot. 3 Ser. 18: 476 (1908).
    • Syntypes: (Spain) Miranda de Ebro, 6.IX.1907, H. Elias. MA, 12.IX.1911. H. Elias. BC, Logrono, Sennen, BC.
  • Salsola iberica (Sennen & Pau) Czerep.., Svod Dopolneniĭ I izmeneniĭ k Flore SSSR: 102. (1973).
  • Salsola kali subsp. iberica (Sennen & Pau) Rilke, in Rechinger, Fl. Iran. 172: 183. (1997).
  • Salsola kali var. tenuifolia Tausch, Flora 11: 326. (1828).
  • Kali tragus var. tenuifolia (Tausch) Verloove, Dumortiera 122: 175 (2023).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Europe Asia-Temperate Usually at dry inland sites. At pontic-mediterranean coasts replaced by Salsola squarrosa, at baltic to atlantic coasts by Salsola kali (Mosyakin, 2017). Introduced elsewhere References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1756. Centuria II. Plantarum. 34 pp., Upsaliae, exc. L.M. Höjer. BHL Reference page. 
• Scopoli, J.A. 1771. Flora Carniolica exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano. Editio secunda aucta et reformata. Tom. I. lxxii + 448 pp., tab. 1–32, Vindobona: Impensis Ioannis Pauli Krauss. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. 

Additional references

• Mosyakin, S.L. 2017. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Pontic-Mediterranean coastal and some Australasian taxa of Salsola (Chenopodiaceae). Ukrayins'kyi Botanicnyi Zhurnal 74(6): 521–531. DOI: 10.15407/ukrbotj74.06.521 PDFReference page. 
• Mosyakin, S.L., Freitag, H. & Rilke, S. 2017. Kali versus Salsola: the instructive story of a questionable nomenclatural resurrection. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 64: 18–30. DOI: 10.1080/07929978.2016.1256135 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• 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.
• Rilke, S. 1997. Salsola kali subsp. tragus. Pp. 180–182 in Hedge, I.C., Akhani, H., Freitag, H., Kothe-Heinrich, G., Podlech, D., Rilke, S. & Uotila, P. , Chenopodiaceae. In: Rechinger, K.H. (ed.): Flora Iranica Vol. 172. 371 pp., 212 tab., Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz. Reference page. 
• 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. : Salsola tragus.
• Uotila, P. 2011. Salsola tragus. In: Chenopodiaceae (pro parte majore). Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.
• Zhu, G., Mosyakin, S.L. & Clemants, S.E. 2004. Salsola tragus. In: Flora of China 5: 409.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Salsola tragus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 Mar. 15. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2024. Salsola tragus. 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. 2024. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2024 Mar. 15. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2024. Salsola tragus. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 15 2024.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Salsola tragus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 08 May 2019.

Vernacular names

català: barrella llisa
Deutsch: Ruthenisches Salzkraut, Ukraine-Salzkraut
English: prickly Russian thistle, Russian thistle, tumbleweed
español: barrilla
suomi: Idänotakilokki
монгол: Бударгана
Diné bizaad: Chʼil deenínii
русский: Солянка сорная, Солянка трагус
中文: 刺沙蓬, ci sha peng

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