Halothamnus hierochunticus
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Halothamnus hierochunticus is a species of the genus Halothamnus fromthe foxtail family ( Amaranthaceae ).
features
Halothamnus hierochunticus is a 40–50 cm high annual plant with blue-green twigs that smells slightly unpleasant of rancid butter. The semicircular leaves are linear to lanceolate-triangular and up to 30 (rarely 50) mm long. The flowers are in 6-13 mm spacing on the branches and with 2.8 to 3.3 mm somewhat shorter than her bract and their bracts , their Tepalen are triangular. The scars are trimmed at the top. The winged fruit reaches 10–16 mm in diameter, its wings set in the middle of the fruit height. The fruit tube has concave side walls with sharply protruding ridges. At its base, a narrow, protruding wall surrounds the very large, rounded pits.
In the lower part of the plant, heavier fruits with short wings arise, in the upper part, however, light fruits with large wings ( heterocarpy ).
Fruit (side view)
Fruits (underside) from the lower part of the plant (left) and from the upper part (right)
Occurrence
The range of Halothamnus hierochunticus stretches through the fertile crescent of Lebanon , Syria , Turkey (Southeast Anatolia), Israel and Palestine via Jordan and Iraq to western Iran . At some isolated locations in southern and northern Iran, the species could have been introduced as field weeds. It grows in fields, where it can become an annoying weed in places, as well as in ruderal locations (roadsides, ruins), often on salty soils, on loess or sand, up to 1500 m above sea level.
Taxonomy
The first description of Halothamnus hierochunticus was in 1912 by Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller as Salsola hierochuntica . The species was incorporated into the genus Halothamnus in 1981 by Viktor Petrovich Botschanzew .
Synonyms of Halothamnus hierochunticus (Bornm.) Botsch. are Salsola hierochuntica Bornm. , Salsola autrani Post var. Hierochuntica (Bornm.) Eig , Aellenia hierochuntica (Bornm.) Aellen , Aellenia autrani (Post) Zoh. , Aellenia autrani (Post) Zoh. var. hierochuntica (Bornm.) Zoh. , nom. inval. - The name Salsola autrani Post is not synonymous .
Hebrew: אֵלֶנְיָה נָאָה
literature
- Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich: Revision of the genus Halothamnus (Chenopodiaceae). Bibliotheca Botanica Vol. 143, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 978-3-510-48014-2 , pp. 61-65 (sections Characteristics, Occurrence, Taxonomy)
- Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich: Halothamnus . - In: Karl Heinz Rechinger et al. (Ed.): Flora Iranica Vol. 172, Chenopodiaceae Akad. Druck, Graz 1997, ISBN 3-201-00728-5 , pp. 261-262 and fig. 7-8, tab. 146.
Individual evidence
- ↑ E. Werker & T. Many: Heterocarpy and its ontogeny in Aellenia autrani (Post) Zoh., Light and electron microscope study. - Israel J. Bot. 23, 1974, pp. 134-144
- ↑ Helmut Freitag, Vagif Atamov, Esat Çetin, Mustafa Aslan: The genus Halothamnus Jaub. & Spach (Chenopodiaceae) in Turkey - Turk. J. Bot. 33, 2009: pp. 325-334. ( PDF )
- ↑ D. Shimshi: Population dynamics of Aellenia hierochuntica (Bornm.) Aellen. - Israel J. Bot. 20, 1971, pp. 44-47.
- ^ Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller: To the flora of Palestine. - in: Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 29,2, 1912, p. 13. (first description)
- ^ Viktor Petrovich Botschantzev: Revisio generis Halothamnus Jaub. et Spach (Chenopodiaceae) (Russian). - In: Bot. Mater. Tanning Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk SSSR = Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii. Moscow & Leningrad 18, 1981, p. 156. (New combination to Halothamnus )
