Salsola

Genus: Salsola

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Core Eudicots > Order: Caryophyllales > Family: Amaranthaceae . Subfamily: Salsoloideae

About 150 species, native to Europe, Asia and Africa, where it occurs in arid and semi-arid regions. About 89 species are found in southern Africa, including the introduced weed Salsola kali, which is native to Asia.

Species indigenous in southern Africa

*Salsola acocksii*
*Salsola adisca*
*Salsola adversariifolia*
*Salsola aellenii*
*Salsola albida*
*Salsola albisepala*
*Salsola angolensis*
*Salsola aphylla*
*Salsola apiciflora*
*Salsola apterygea*
*Salsola araneosa*
*Salsola arborea*
*Salsola armata*
*Salsola aroabica*
*Salsola atrata*
*Salsola barbata*
*Salsola calluna*
*Salsola campyloptera*
*Salsola capensis*
*Salsola cauliflora*
*Salsola ceresica*
*Salsola columnaris*
*Salsola contrariifolia*
*Salsola cryptoptera*
*Salsola dealata*
*Salsola decussata*
*Salsola denudata*
*Salsola dinteri*
*Salsola dolichostigma*
*Salsola esterhuyseniae*
*Salsola etoshensis*
*Salsola exalata*
*Salsola garubica*
*Salsola geminiflora*
*Salsola gemmata*
*Salsola gemmifera*
*Salsola gemmipara*
*Salsola giessii*
*Salsola glabra*
*Salsola glabrescens*
*Salsola henriciae*
*Salsola hoanibica*
*Salsola hottentottica*
*Salsola huabica*
*Salsola humifusa*
*Salsola inaperta*
*Salsola kalaharica*
*Salsola kali*
*Salsola kleinfonteini*
*Salsola koichabica*

Publications

Botschantsev, V.P. 1969. The genus Salsola; a concise history of its development and dispersal. Botanisheskii Zhurnal 54: 989-1001.
Botschantsev, V.P. 1974. A synopsis of Salsola (Chenopodiaceae) from South and South-West Africa. Kew Bulletin 29: 597-614.