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Chenopodiaceae - Chenopodioideae - Halopeplideae - Halopeplis Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb.

Description:

  • Succulent annual or perennial herbs, glabrous; stems not jointed
  • Leaves opposite or upper ones alternate, reduced to small, succulent scales, subglobose to ovoid, amplexicaul
  • Inflorescences densely spicate; bracts fleshy, spirally placed, suborbicular, persistent
  • Flowers bisexual, in triads, in axils of spirally arranged bracteal scales, connate to one another and adnate to bracts
  • Perianth small, connate, compressed 4-angled, 3-dentate at apex
  • Stamens 1-3, shortly exserted; thecae without connectival appendages
  • Ovary pear-shaped, ± laterally compressed; styles 2; stigmas 2, subulate
  • Fruit enclosed in perianth with a membranous pericarp
  • Seed ovoid to ± circular, compressed; endosperm copious, central; embryo hook-shaped
  • x = 9 (1 report)

Nomenclature:

  • Halopeplis Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb.
    • Ungern-Sternberg: 102 (1866)
    • Hooker: 64 (1880)
    • Volkens: 74 (1892)
    • Adamson: 359 (1950)
    • Zohary: 154 (1966)
    • Scott: 372 (1977)
    • Kühn: 271 (1993)
    • Hedge: 123 (1997)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 3, in southern Europe, W Asia, north and southern Africa
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Halopeplis amplexicaulis (Vahl) Bunge ex Ung.-Sternb., saline habitats, West Coast

References:

  • ADAMSON, R.S. 1950. Chenopodiaceae Less. In R.S. Adamson & T.M. Salter, Flora of the Cape Peninsula. Juta, Cape Town
  • HEDGE, I.C. 1997. Chenopodiaceae. Beta, Atriplex, Bassia, Kochia, Halopeplis & Salicornia. Flora iranica 172
  • HOOKER, J.D. 1880. Chenopodiaceae. In G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera plantarum 3,1. Lovell Reeve & Co., London
  • KÜHN, U. 1993. Chenopodiaceae. In K. Kubitzki, J.G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich, The families and genera of vascular plants - dicotyledons 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
  • SCOTT, A.J. 1977. Reinstatement and revision of Salicorniaceae J.Agardh (CARYOPHYLLALES). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 75
  • UNGERN-STERNBERG, F. 1866. Versuch einer Systematik der Salicornieen. E.J. Karow, Dorpat
  • VOLKENS, G. 1892. Chenopodiaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3,1a
  • ZOHARY, M. 1966. Chenopodiaceae. Flora Palaestina 1

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