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Annual to shrub; hairs simple, stellate or glandular; plants generally scaly, mealy, or powdery from collapsed glands; generally monoecious.
Stem: occasionally fleshy.
Leaf: blade simple, generally alternate, occasionally fleshy or reduced to scales, veins pinnate; stipules 0.
Inflorescence: raceme, spike, catkin-like, spheric heads, or flowers 1; bracts 0–5, herbaceous, generally persistent or strongly modified in fruit, wings, tubercles or spines present or 0.
Flower: bisexual or unisexual, small, green; calyx parts (1)3–5, or 0 in pistillate flowers, free or fused basally, leaf-like in texture, membranous or fleshy, deciduous or not, generally strongly modified in fruit; corolla 0; stamens 1–5, opposite to calyx parts, filaments free, equal; anthers 4-chambered; ovary superior (1/2-inferior), chamber 1; ovule 1; styles, stigmas 1–4.
Fruit: achene or utricle, generally with persistent calyx or bracts.
Seed: 1, small, lenticular to spheric; seed coat smooth to finely dotted, warty, net-like, or prickly, margin occasionally winged.
100 genera, 1500 species: worldwide, especially deserts, saline or alkaline soils; some cultivated for food (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, beet, Swiss chard; Spinacia oleracea L., spinach; Chenopodium quinoa Willd., quinoa); and some worldwide, naturalized ruderal or noxious agricultural weeds. Nitrophila treated in Amaranthaceae, Sarcobatus treated in Sarcobataceae. —Scientific Editors: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Annual to shrub.Key to Salsola
Stem: simple to many-branched.
Leaf: generally reduced distally along stem, thread-like to ± cylindric, spine-tipped, in age generally thick, rigid.
Inflorescence: axillary; bracts 1–2; flowers generally 1 per axil.
Flower: bisexual; sepals 4–5, thickened in fruit, persistent, generally tubercled to winged; stamens generally 5, exserted, style branches generally 2, exserted.
Fruit: spheric to obovoid; tip ± depressed.
Seed: horizontal.
± 100 species: ± worldwide. (Latin: salty, from habitats) [Mosyakin 2003 FNANM 4:398–403; Hrusa & Gaskin 2008 Madroño 55:113–131] An alternative treatment as separate genera Kali (Salsola australis, Salsola gobicola, Salsola paulsenii, Salsola ryanii, Salsola tragus), Caroxylon (Salsola damascena), and Salsola (Salsola soda) has been proposed (Akhani et al. 2007 Int J Plant Sci 168:931–956).
Annual < 2 m, branched, not readily breaking at base, glabrous to ± minutely scabrous (short-bristly).
Stem: brittle, blue- glaucous to green, occasionally red-striped.
Leaf: opposite or alternate below, alternate above, 8–52 mm, blade ± deciduous, base broader in age, margin broad, translucent, tip sharp-pointed to spiny.
Inflorescence: open to dense, prickly, generally not rigid; bract not surrounding fruit, subcylindric, weakly spiny, narrowly wing-margined in age, lower margin ± translucent.
Flower: sepals 2.5–3 mm, lobes soft in fruit; anthers 0.5–0.7 mm.
Fruit: deciduous in age; 4.8–7.9 mm diam including wings; developed wings 5, opaque, veins few, generally dark, margin generally smooth, smallest wings fan-shaped to broadly obovate.
2n=18. Disturbed places, road banks, open slopes, railroad tracks, shorelines; < 700 m. Great Central Valley, Central Western California, South Coast, Desert (rare Mojave Desert);
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Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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