Flora of North America species comparison

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Halogeton

halogeton, saltlover
Habit Herbs, annual, polygamous, herbage glaucous, glabrous except for axillary tufts of long white hairs.
Stems

erect or spreading, much-branched, not jointed, not armed, somewhat fleshy.
Leaves

alternate, sessile, ± succulent;

blade terete, narrowly oblong, base expanded, clasping, apex obtuse with caducous, flexible bristle.
Inflorescences

axillary glomerules;

bracts leaflike.
Flowers

bisexual and unisexual;

perianth persistent, deeply 5-parted, not imbricate, apically winged, some with flabellate blade, often indurate;

stamens 5 or fewer;

stigmas 2.
Fruits

utricles, orbiculate;

pericarp somewhat adherent to seed.
Seeds

vertical, orbiculate, flattened;

seed coat brown or brownish black;

perisperm absent.
x

= 9.

Halogeton
Distribution
from USDA
Mediterranean region to c Asia [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 5 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 403. Author: Noel H. Holmgren.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae
Subordinate taxa
H. glomeratus
Name authority C. A. Meyer: in C. F. von Ledebour, Icon. Pl. 1: 10, plate 40. (1829)
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