Haloxylon gracile

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: Haloxylon
Species: Haloxylon gracile

Name

Haloxylon gracile (Aellen) Hedge, Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 172: 322. (1997)

• Accepted as Haloxylon gracile in Govaerts 2019, but as Arthrophytum gracile in Hassler 2019.

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Arthrophytum gracile Aellen, Arbok Univ. Berg., Mat.-Nat. 1963, No. 18, 47. (1964)
    • Type: Afghanistan: N: Mazar-i-Sharif, Cheshma-i-Shafa. I.C. Hedge & P. Wendelbo, W-3900. Holotype: BG, Isotype: E00296919.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Asia-Temperate Western Asia Afghanistan (Badghys, Balkh) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDGW – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Hedge, I.C. 1997. Haloxylon gracile. In: Hedge, I.C., Akhani, H., Freitag, H., Kothe-Heinrich, G., Podlech, D., Rilke, S. & Uotila, P. 1997. Chenopodiaceae. In: Rechinger, K.H. (ed.): Flora Iranica no. 172. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz, 371 pp., 212 tab. Reference page. : 322.
• Aellen, P. 1964. Chenopodiaceae. In: Hedge, I. & Wendelbo, P.: Studies in the Flora of Afghanistan 1. Aarbok for Universitetet i Bergen. Matematisk-Naturvitenskapelig Serie 1963, 18: 45–49. Reference page. : 47.

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 Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Podlech, D. 2012. Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Afghanistan. PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Hassler, M. 2019. Arthrophytum gracile. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (2019). In: Roskov 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 on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 07.
• International Plant Names Index. 2015. Haloxylon gracile. Published online. Accessed 18 December 2015.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Haloxylon gracile in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 07.