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20. Halocnemum M. Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 3: l3. 1819; Boiss., Fl. Or. 4: 936. 1879; Kom., Fl. URSS 6: 170. 1936; Ball. in Tutin et al., Fl. Europ. 1: 101. 1964; Zohary, Fl. Palaest. 1: 154. 1966; Aellen in Davis, Fl. Turk. 2: 319. 1966; Jafri & Rateeb in Jafri & EI-Gadi, Fl. Libya 58: 49. 1978; Hedge in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 172: 126. 1997.
Richly branched, fleshy, moniliform-looking low shrubs, with short globular to cylindrical branches, and jointed stems with rudimentary blades of opposite connate scale-like leaves, glabrous, glaucous-greenish. Flowers mostly in 3s somewhat immersed in the axis of inflorescence, perfect or polygamous, arranged in short, dense lateral and terminal spicate inflorescence; perianth segments 3, united below, membranous, inflexed at tip, not appendaged in fruit; stamen 1. Ovary with a thick style and 2 subulate stigmas; utricle ovoid with membranous pericarp; seed vertical with arcuate embryo.
A monotypic genus in S. Europe, N. Africa through Asia to Mongolia.
Lower Taxon
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