Biology:Saltia papposa

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Saltia papposa
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Illustration of Saltia papposa in 1860
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Saltia
R.Br. ex Moq.
Species:
S. papposa
Binomial name
Saltia papposa
(Forssk.) Moq.
Synonyms[1][2]

Genus synonymy

  • Psilodigera Suess.

Species synonymy

  • (Suess.) Cavaco Forssk.
  • Moq., A.P.de Candolle Psilodigera spicata
  • Achyranthes papposa Suess.
  • Psilotrichum spicatum Saltia seddera

Saltia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It just contains one species, Saltia papposa.[1] It is in the Amaranthoideae subfamily.

It is native to Saudi Arabia and Yemen,[3][4] in the Arabian Peninsula.[1][5] It is found on gravel plains with other shrubs.[6]

The genus name of Saltia is in honour of Henry Salt (1780–1827), an English artist, traveller, collector of antiquities, diplomat, and Egyptologist.[7] The Latin specific epithet of papposa refers to pappus the wind-dispersal mechanism for the seeds. It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.13 (Series 2) on page 325 in 1849.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Saltia" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/77111124-1. Retrieved 15 October 2022. 
  2. "Saltia papposa" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/77111125-1. Retrieved 15 October 2022. 
  3. Gabali, Dr. Saeed Abdo; Al-Gifri, Abdul-Nasser (1990). "Flora of South Yemen — Angiospermae A provisional checklist". Feddes Repertorium 101 (7-8): 373-383. 
  4. J. R. I. Wood A Handbook of the Yemen Flora (1997), p. 26, at Google Books
  5. Al-Khulaidi, Abdul Wali Ahmed; Al-Qadasi, Abdul Habib; Al-Hawshabi, Othman Saad Saeed (September 2020). "NATURAL PLANT SPECIES INVENTORY OF THE IMPORTANT PLANT AREAS IN ARABIAN PENINSULA: BANI OMAR, TAIZ GOVERNORATE, REPUBLIC OF YEMEN". EJUA-BA 3: 135-149. 
  6. S.A. Ghazanfar and M. Fisher (Editors) Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (1998), p. 269, at Google Books
  7. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021. 

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