Halothamnus iranicus
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Halothamnus iranicus is a species of the genus Halothamnus from the foxtail family( Amaranthaceae ).
features
Halothamnus iranicus is a 45 cm high and 100 cm wide shrub with blue-green branches, the unpleasant smells of rancid butter. The leaves are linear to triangular-ovate and up to 11 mm long. The flowers are 2-5 mm apart on the branches and are 3.2-4.2 mm longer than their bracts and bracts , their tepals are narrow-ovoid. The scars are pointed at the top. The winged fruit reaches 7-11 mm in diameter, its wings are 1/3 of the fruit height. The fruit tube is almost cylindrical with a narrow, sharp-edged wall and small egg-shaped pits at the base.
Fruit (side view)
Fruit (underside)
Occurrence
Halothamnus iranicus is endemic to southern Iran and southwestern Pakistan (Balochistan). It grows in frost - free semi - deserts on rocky, stony, sometimes salty locations from 0 to 930 m above sea level.
Taxonomy
The first description of Halothamnus iranicus Botsch. was made in 1981 by Viktor Petrovich Botschanzew .
literature
- Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich: Revision of the genus Halothamnus (Chenopodiaceae) . Bibliotheca Botanica Vol. 143, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 978-3-510-48014-2 , pp. 57-61 (sections characteristics, occurrences, taxonomy)
- Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich: Halothamnus . - In: Karl Heinz Rechinger et al. (Edit.): Flora Iranica Vol. 172, Chenopodiaceae - Akad. Druck, Graz 1997, ISBN 3-201-00728-5 , pp. 263-265, and fig. 7-8, tab.148
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 153. (first description)
