Flora of North America species comparison

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Halimodendron

halimodendron, Russian salt tree
Habit Shrubs, 1–3 m, usually armed, leaf rachis spine-tipped, stipules sometimes spinescent.
Stems

sprawling or ascending, glabrous.
Leaves

alternate or clustered on spurs, even-pinnate;

stipules present, 1–4 mm;

petiolate;

leaflets 2 or 4(–10), sessile, stipels absent, blade margins entire, surfaces glaucous, glabrous or sericeous.
Inflorescences

1–5-flowered, axillary from spurs, racemes [umbels];

bracts and bracteoles present.
Flowers

papilionaceous;

calyx broadly campanulate, lobes 5;

corolla purple to lilac or white;

stamens 10, diadelphous;

anthers dorsifixed.
Fruits

legumes, stipitate, turgid, obovoid to ellipsoid or oblong, tardily dehiscent, indented along sutures, glabrous.
Seeds

2–8, subreniform, smooth.
x

= 8.

Halimodendron
Distribution
from USDA
e Europe; w Asia; c Asia [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Author: Richard R. Halse.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae
Subordinate taxa
H. halodendron
Name authority Fischer ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle: Prodr. 2: 269. (1825)
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