Salsola oppositifolia

Salsola oppositifolia, in fruit

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 oppositifolia

Name

Salsola oppositifolia Desf., Fl. Atlant. 1: 219. (1798)

• Type: Tunisia: In agro Tunetano. R.L. Desfontaines s.n. - Lectotype (designated by Peruzzi, L. & Passalacqua, N.G. 2004): P P00267790. Isolectotype: MO MO100385228.

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Seidlitzia oppositifolia (Desf.) Iljin, Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 16: 88. (1954)
• Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2019)
  • Salsola oppositifolia f. feminea Botsch., Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast., 26: 86. (1989)

• Misapplied names
  • "Salsola longifolia" sensu auct.
  • "Salsola verticillata" sensu auct.

Homonyms

• Salsola oppositifolia (Pall.) Pall., Reise Russ. Reich. 2: 735 (-736; t. O). 1773, nomen
• Salsola oppositifolia Sieber ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 190. 1849, nom. inval. in syn.
• Salsola oppositifolia L. ex B.D.Jacks., Index Linn. Herb. 129 (1912), nomen.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Europe Southwestern Europe Baleares, Spain Southeastern Europe Italy, Sicilia Africa Northern Africa Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara Asia-Temperate Western Asia Palestine, Sinai, Arabian Peninsula Saudi Arabia (Hejaz), References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Desfontaines, R.L. 1798. Flora Atlantica sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro tunetano et algeriensi crescunt. Tomus primus. xx + 444 pp, 120 pl., Parisiis: Panckoucke. BHL Reference page. : 219
• Iljin, M.M. 1954. De genere Seidlitzia Bge. Notae criticae. Botanicheskie Materialy Gerbariya Botanicheskogo Instituta Imeni V. L. Komarova Akademii Nauk SSSR (Notulae Systematicae ex Herbario Instituti Botanici V.L. Komarovii Academiae Scientiarum URSS) 16: 86–93. Reference page. : 88
• Peruzzi, L. & Passalacqua, N.G. 2004. On the lectotypifications of the names of four species described by Desfontaines reported for Calabria (S. Italy). Taxon 53(2): 543–547. DOI: 10.2307/4135636 JSTOR ResearchGate. Reference page. 

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. : 946.
• Uotila, P. 2011. Salsola oppositifolia. In: Chenopodiaceae (pro parte majore). – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2019. Salsola oppositifolia. 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 May 08. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Salsola oppositifolia. Published online. Accessed: May 08 2019.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Salsola oppositifolia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 May 08. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2019. Salsola oppositifolia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 08 May 2019.

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