Genus: Salsola
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> Order: Caryophyllales > Family:
Amaranthaceae > Subfamily: Salsoloideae
About 150 species, native to Europe, Asia and Africa,
where it occurs in arid and semi-arid regions. Eighty-eight species are native
to
southern Africa, and the weed Salsola kali has become naturalised in the
region.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).
Salsola acocksii |
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Salsola adisca |
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Salsola adversariifolia |
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Salsola aellenii |
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Salsola albida |
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Salsola albisepala |
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Salsola angolensis |
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Salsola aphylla |
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Salsola apiciflora |
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Salsola apterygea |
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Salsola araneosa |
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Salsola arborea |
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Salsola armata |
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Salsola aroabica |
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Salsola atrata |
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Salsola barbata |
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Salsola calluna |
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Salsola campyloptera |
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Salsola capensis |
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Salsola cauliflora |
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Salsola ceresica |
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Salsola columnaris |
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Salsola contrariifolia |
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Salsola cryptoptera |
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Salsola dealata |
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Salsola decussata |
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Salsola denudata |
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Salsola dinteri |
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Salsola dolichostigma |
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Salsola esterhuyseniae |
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Salsola etoshensis |
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Salsola exalata |
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Salsola garubica |
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Salsola geminiflora |
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Salsola gemmata |
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Salsola gemmifera |
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Salsola gemmipara |
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Salsola giessii |
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Salsola glabra |
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Salsola glabrescens |
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Salsola henriciae |
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Salsola hoanibica |
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Salsola hottentottica |
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Salsola huabica |
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Salsola humifusa |
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Salsola inaperta |
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Salsola kalaharica |
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Salsola kleinfonteini |
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Salsola koichabica |
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Salsola luederitzensis |
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Salsola marginata |
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Salsola melanantha |
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Salsola merxmuelleri |
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Salsola microtricha |
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Salsola minutifolia |
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Salsola mirabilis |
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Salsola namaqualandica |
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Salsola namibica |
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Salsola nollothensis |
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Salsola okaukuejensis |
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Salsola omaruruensis |
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Salsola parviflora |
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Salsola patentipilosa |
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Salsola pearsonii |
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Salsola phillipsii |
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Salsola pillansii |
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Salsola procera |
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Salsola ptiloptera |
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Salsola rabieana |
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Salsola robinsonii |
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Salsola ruschii |
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Salsola schreiberae |
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Salsola scopiformis |
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Salsola seminuda |
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Salsola sericata |
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Salsola seydelii |
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Salsola smithii |
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Salsola spenceri |
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Salsola squarrosula |
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Salsola swakopmundi |
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Salsola tetramera |
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Salsola tuberculata |
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Salsola tuberculatiformis |
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Salsola ugabica |
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Salsola unjabica |
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Salsola verdoorniae |
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Salsola warmbadica |
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Salsola zeyheri |
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Species naturalised in southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).
Salsola kali (Prickly saltwort)
Native to Europe. |
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Publications
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Botschantsev, V.P. 1969. The genus Salsola;
a concise history of its development and dispersal. Botanisheskii Zhurnal
54: 989-1001.
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Botschantsev, V.P. 1974. A synopsis of Salsola
(Chenopodiaceae) from South and South-West Africa. Kew Bulletin 29:
597-614.
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