Haloxylon salicornicum

Haloxylon salicornicum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Mesangiospermae Cladus: Eudicota Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Salsoloideae
Tribus: Salsoleae
Genus: Haloxylon
Species: Haloxylon salicornicum

Name

Haloxylon salicornicum (Moq.) Bunge ex Boiss., Fl. Orient. [Boissier] 4(2): 949 (1879).

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Caroxylon salicornicum Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 174 (1849).
    • Type: "In Afghanistano, Barikabn Bassoulah, Huzarnow" (Peshawar to Jalalabad) W. Griffith 1796. Holotype: K, Isotype: P P00799053.
• Homotypic
  • Hammada salicornica (Moq.) Iljin, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 33: 583 (1948).
• Heterotypic
  • Salsola articulata Cav., Icon. [Cavanilles] 3: 43; t. 284 (1795), nom. illeg. (later homonym of Salsola articulata Forssk. 1775), replaced by Caroxylon articulatum
  • Caroxylon articulatum Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 175 (1849).
    • Syntypes: "In Hispania (Cav., Bory.), circa Murciam (Lag. n.529), prope Almeriam (Webb), inter Mijas et Berja (Boissier), in Aegypto (Redoute)."
  • Haloxylon articulatum (Moq.) Bunge, Beitr. Fl. Russl. 293 (1852). / Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans 7: 293 / 469 (1852).
  • Arthrophytum articulatum (Moq.) Iljin, Mat. Hist. Fl. & Veg. USSR Fasc. 2, 222 (1946), in obs.
  • Arthrophytum scoparium var. articulatum (Moq.) Le Houér. (1960)
  • Hammada articulata (Moq.) O.Bolòs & Vigo, Butl. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat., Secc. Bot. 38(1): 89 (1974), nom. superfl.
  • Haloxylon elegans Bunge, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 6(2): 439 (1880).
    • Type: Iran: [Persia], pr. Tebbes, [A.A. Bunge], #61. Holotype: LE00011796; Isotypes: BR0000006992132, BR0000006992101, LE00011939
  • Hammada elegans (Bunge) Botsch., Novosti Sist. Vysš. Rast. 1: 362 (1964).
  • Hammada hispanica Botsch., Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 363 (1964), nom. illeg. in adnot.
  • Haloxylon schweinfurthii Asch., Mém. Inst. Égypt. 2: 128 (1887).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Africa Northern Africa Algeria, Egypt, Libya Asia-Temperate Western Asia Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Sinai Arabian Peninsula Gulf States, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent Pakistan References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Ascherson, P.F.A. & Schweinfurth, G.A. 1887. Illustration de la Flore d'Égypte. Mémoires présentés à l'Institut Égyptien, 2. DOI: 10.11588/diglit.11322.3 Reference page. 
• Boissier, P.E. 1879. Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto and Indiae fines hucusque observatarum Volumen quartum. Corolliflorae et Monochlamydeae. Fasciculus secundus. Pp. 281–1276. Genevae et Basileae: H. Georg. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. 
• Bolòs, O. & Vigo, J. 1974. Notes sobre taxonomia i nomenclatura de plantes, I. Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural. Secció de botanica 38(1): 61–89. PDF Reference page. 
• Botschantzev, V.P. 1964. Dopolnenija k flore OAR (Egipet). Additamenta ad floram Aegypti. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii (1964): 349–378. Reference page. 
• Bunge, A.v. 1852 ('1851'). Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Flora Russlands und der Steppen Central-Asiens (aus den Mémoires des savants étrangers Tome VII besonders abgedruckt). St. Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. [1–370 of the preprint, double pagination]. BHL - [Separate preprint from: Bunge, A.v. 1852. Alexandri Lehmann Reliquiae Botanicae, sive Enumeratio Plantarum ab Alexandro Lehmann in Itinere per Regiones Uralensi-Caspicas, Deserta Kirghisiorum, Transoxanam et Sogdianam annis 1839–1842 peracto, collectarum. (Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Flora Russlands und der Steppen Central-Asiens. Erste Abtheilung). Mémoires présentées á l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg par Divers Savans et lus dans ses assemblées 7: 181–536. BHL Reference page. 
• Bunge, A. von 1879 (1880). Enumeratio Salsolacearum centrasiaticarum. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada (Acta Horti Petropolitani. St. Petersburg) 6(2): 403–459. BHL Reference page. 
• Cavanilles, A.I. 1795–1796. Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur. Vol. III. X + 50 pp,, tab. 201–300. Ex Regia Typographia, Matriti [Madrid]. Biblioteca Digital Reference page. 
• Iljin, M.M. 1946. Some results gained by studying the formation of flora in the deserts of Central Asia. Pp. 197–256. In: Materials on the history of the flora and vegetation of the USSR, Fasc. 2. Moscow, Leningrad: Academic Sciences Press. [Russian, English summary] Reference page. 
• Iljin, M.M. 1948. Novi rod Hammada Iljin. Botanicheskii Zhurnal (Moscow & Leningrad) 33: 582–583. Reference page. 
• Le Houérou, H.-N. 1960. Plantes nouvelles ou méconnues de la Tunisie méridionale. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 107: 17–29. DOI: 10.1080/00378941.1960.10837912 Reference page. 
• 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. 

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.
• Hedge, I.C. 1997. Haloxylon salicornicum. Pp. 319 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. : Haloxylon salicornicum.
• Uotila, P. 2011+. Hammada salicornica. In: Chenopodiaceae (pro parte majore). – Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2026. Haloxylon salicornicum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2026 July 6. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2026. Haloxylon salicornicum. Published online. Accessed: 6. July 2026. Reference page.

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