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Chenopodiaceae - Chenopodioideae - Camphorosmeae - Bassia All.

Description:

  • Annual or rarely perennial herbs with an indumentum of spreading or adpressed, usually barbellate hairs
  • Leaves well developed, alternate, small, thin or succulent, usually linear to oblong, entire, pubescent, subsessile
  • Inflorescences elongated, spike-like or spreading panicles
  • Flowers bisexual or unisexual, axillary, solitary or clustered, ebracteate, small
  • Tepals 5, membranous, glabrous, tomentose or woolly, urceolate, connate above the middle; fruiting perianth accrescent, chartaceous, smooth or with up to 5 horizontal spine-like or tubercle-like appendages
  • Stamens 5, exserted; anthers oblong; thecae broadly oblong, without appendages
  • Ovary broadly ovoid, without disc at base; ovule subsessile; style short; stigmas 2, exserted
  • Fruit ± circular, horizontally compressed or sometimes vertical, with membranous pericarp, free from seed coat
  • Seed orbicular, horizontal or vertical; testa hard; endosperm copious or 0, mealy; embryo horseshoe-shaped
  • x = 9

Nomenclature:

  • Bassia All.
    • Allioni: 177, t. 4, fig. 2 (1766)
    • Volkens: 70 (1892)
    • Scott: 106 (1978)
    • Kühn: 269 (1993)
  • Chenoleoides (Ulbr.) Botsch.
    • Botschantsev: 1408 (1976)
  • Chenolea Thunb.
    • Thunberg: 9 (1781)
    • Hooker: 59 (1880)
    • Volkens: 70 (1892)
    • Wright: 447 (1910)
    • Botschantsev: 1462 (1973)
  • Kochia Roth
    • Roth: 307 (1801)
    • section Bassiae (All.) Boiss.
      • Boissier: 925 (1879)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 10, Eurasia, Africa and introduced to Northern America
  • Southern Africa: Species 4, in salt marshes along the whole coastal belt and inland riverbanks, in Namibia, Northern, Western and Eastern Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • ALLIONI, C. 1766. Synopsis methodica stirpium horti regii taurensis. Bassia. Mélanges de philosophie et de mathématique de la société royale de Turin 3
  • BOISSIER, P.E. 1879. Salsolaceae. Flora orientalis 4,2. H. Georg, Geneva
  • BOTSCHANTSEV, V.P. 1973. Species of the subtribe Kochieae Moq. (Chenopodiaceae) from South and South West Africa. Botanisheskii Zhurnal 58,10
  • BOTSCHANTSEV, V.P. 1976. New genus Chenoleoides (Ulbrich) Botsch. Botanisheskii Zhurnal 61
  • 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
  • ROTH, A.W. 1801. Chenopodiaceae. In H.A. Schrader, Journal für die Botanik 1
  • SCOTT, A.J. 1978. A revision of the Camphorosmoideae (Chenopodiaceae). Feddes Repertorium 89
  • THUNBERG, C.P. 1781. Chenolea. Nova genera plantarum 1. Edman, Uppsala
  • VOLKENS, G. 1892. Chenopodiaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3,1a
  • WRIGHT, C.H. 1910-1912. Chenopodiaceae. Flora capensis 5,1

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