1. Kochia prostrata (L.) Schrad. in Neues J. Bot. 3: 85. 1809; Hook. f., l.c. 5: 10; Ball in Tutin et al., l.c. 99; Aellen in Davis, l.c.; R.R.Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc.Pl.W.Pak.Kashm.224. 1972; Hedge in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 172: 105. 1997.
Salsola prostrata L., Sp. Pl. 222. 1753; Chenopodium angustatum All., Fl. Pedem. 2: 198. t. 38, fig. 4.1766.
Undershrub, usually pubescent, with shaggy hairs, up to 25 (-60) cm long, simple to little branched from the base with slender stems. Leaves linear-filiform to linear-lanceeolate 5-25 mm long, acute, hairy. Flowering glomerules usually above the middle, in slender leafy pseudo-spikes; perianth segments ± densely hairy; wings of fruiting perianth sub-quadrate, hard and scarious, strongly nerved, crenate, about equalling the diameter of the discs, 3-4 mm in diameter; style thick with subulate stigmas.
Fl. Per.: June-August.
Type: Described from N.Asia, Virginia, Herb. Linn. 315/15 & 16 (LINN).
Distribution: S.Europe, Caucasus, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, C. Asia, S.Mongolia, China.
