Caroxylon salsola Thunb., 1782

Mucina, Ladislav, 2017, Caroxylon (Chenopodiaceae s. str.) in continental southern Africa and Madagascar: a preliminary nomenclatural synopsis and biogeographical considerations, Phytotaxa 312 (2), pp. 151-178 : 169

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13702334
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scientific name	Caroxylon salsola Thunb.
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76. Caroxylon salsola Thunb. View in CoL in Nova Genera Plantarum 2: 37 (1782).

Type (designated here): ― [ SOUTH AFRICA]. Promont. Bonae Spei [Cape of Good Hope]: Thunberg s.n. (lectotype S07-809 !; isolectotypes S07-808 !; S07-810 !; S-G-7074!) .

Notes: ― This is the type of the genus Caroxylon , considered a taxonomic synonym ( Botschantzev 1974a: 604; Setshogo 2005; Germishuizen et al. 2006; Klopper et al. 2006) of Salsola aphylla (reclassified by Tzvelev 1993 as Caroxylon aphyllum ).

Distribution: ― South Africa (WC): probably southern Namaqualand.

References

Botschantzev, V. P. (1974 a) A synopsis of Salsola (Chenopodiaceae) from South and South-West Africa. Kew Bulletin 29: 597 - 614. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 4108004

Germishuizen, G., Meyer, N. L., Stenkamp, Y. & Keith, M. (2006) A checklist of South African plants. SABONET Report No. 41. SABONET, Pretoria, 1123 pp.

Klopper, R. R., Chatelain, C., Banninger, V., Habashi, C., Steyn, H. M., De Wet, B. C., Arnold, T. H., Gautier, L., Smith, G. F. & Spichiger, R. (2006) Checklist of the flowering plants of Sub-Saharan Africa. An Index of accepted names and synonyms. SABONET Report No. 42. SABONET, Pretoria, 892 pp.

Setshogo, M. P. (2005) Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. SABONET Report No. 37. SABONET, Pretoria and Gaborone, 161 pp.

Tzvelev, N. N. (1993) Notes on Chenopodiaceae of Eastern Europe. Ukrains'kyi Botanichnyi Zhurnal 50: 78 - 85. [In Russian]