Caroxylon tetragonum

Caroxylon tetragonum (labeled as Salsola tetrandra

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Salsoloideae
Tribus: Caroxyleae
Genus: Caroxylon
Species: Caroxylon tetragonum

Name

Caroxylon tetragonum (Delile) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 176. (1849)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Salsola tetragona Delile, Fl. Egypt 203. t. 21. f. 4. (1813)
    • Type: Egypt: A.R. Delile. Syntypes: MPU MPU007250, MPU007251, Isotype: MPU018986.
• Homotypic
  • Halogeton tetragonus (Delile) Moq., Chenop. Monogr. Enum. 159. (1840)
• Heterotypic (ref. Govaerts 2019)
  • Salsola diplantha Botsch., Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 9: 144. (1972)
  • Salsola pachoi Volkens & Asch., (Ill. Fl. Egypt.) in Mem. Inst. egypt. 2: 130. (1887)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Africa Northern Africa Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara Asia-Temperate Western Asia Palestine References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Ascherson, P.F.A. & Schweinfurth, G.A. 1887. Illustration de la flore d'Egypte. Mémoires présentés à l'Institut Egyptien, 2. DOI: 10.11588/diglit.11322.3 Reference page. : 130
• Botschantzev, V.P. 1972. Species subsectionis Tetragona (Ulbrich) Botsch. sectionis Caroxylon (Thunb.) Fenzl generis Salsola L. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii 9: 140–154. (Russian) Reference page. : 144
• Raffeneau-Delile, A. 1813. Flore d'Ègypte. Explication des planches. In: Description de l'Egypte ... Histoire Naturelle 2: 145–320. Text. Plates. Reference page. : 203, t.21, f.4.
• Moquin-Tandon, A. 1840. Chenopodearum Monographica Enumeratio. P.-J. Loss, Paris. BHL Reference page. : 159
• Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Salsolaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 41–219. Masson, Paris. BHL Reference page. : 176

Additional references

• Akhani, H., Edwards, G. & Roalson, E.H. 2007. Diversification of the Old World Salsoleae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae): Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Nuclear and Chloroplast Data Sets and a Revised Classification. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168(6): 931–956. DOI: 10.1086/518263 ResearchGate Reference page. : 948
• Uotila, P. 2011. Salsola tetragona. In: Chenopodiaceae (pro parte majore). – In: Euro Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2018. Caroxylon tetragonum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 July 04. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Caroxylon tetragonum. Published online. Accessed: July 04 2018.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Caroxylon tetragonum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 08. Reference page. 

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