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35. Noaea Moq. in DC., Prodr. 13, 2: 207. 1849; Bunge , Mem. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Pétersb. 7, sér. 4, 11: 21-28. 1862; Iljin in Fl. URSS 6: 266. 1936; Aellen, Mitt. Basler Bot. Gesellsch. 1, 1: 10-14. 1953; Kühn in Kubitski, Fam. Gen. Flow. Pl. 2: 275. 1993 ; Hedge in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 172: 293. 1997. Noea Boiss. & Bal. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. ser. 2, 4: 76. 1859 - orth. var.
Annual herbs or small stiffish shrubs, glabrous or with papillae or with villous hairs in leaf axils. Stems not jointed, rigid; branches thorny or not. Leaves sessile, alternate, slightly fleshy or not, linear-filiform, subamplexicaul. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary and sessile in upper leaf axils., subtended by 2 leaf-like bracts.. Perianth deeply 5-lobed; lobes membranous in flower and dorsally winged in fruit; wings equal or unequal, coloured or not. Stamens 5; connective with a short non-vesicular terminal appendage. Seeds vertical compressed; embryo spiral; endosperm absent.
Probably only 3 or 4 species in N. Africa eastwards to SW and C Asia. Related to Girgensohnia which has opposite leaves; and to Salsola which has a horizontal seed (cf. Freitag & Khani, Plant. Syst. Evol. 155: 49. 1987).
Lower Taxon
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