''Halothamnus lancifolius'' is a species of the plant genus ''

Halothamnus ''Halothamnus'' is a genus in the subfamily Salsoloideae of the family Amaranthaceae (s.l., now including Chenopodiaceae). The scientific name means saltbush, from the Greek ἅλς (''hals'') "salt" and θαμνος (''thamnos'') "bush". This r ...

'', that belongs to the subfamily Salsoloideae within the family Amaranthaceae, (formerly Chenopodiaceae). It occurs in Southwest Asia.

Morphology

''Halothamnus lancifolius'' is a

sub-shrub A subshrub (Latin ''suffrutex'') or dwarf shrub is a short shrub, and is a woody plant. Prostrate shrub is a related term. "Subshrub" is often used interchangeably with "bush".Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their De ...

up to 45 cm high, with blueish-green pale-striped branches. The leaves are flat, somewhat fleshy, lanceolate-triangular or linear-triangulate, and up to 43 mm long and 1,9-4,5 mm wide, decurrent at their base for 1–5 mm along the stem. The

bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...

s and bracteoles are flat and lanceolate, the bracteoles obliquely standing off, basally with membraneous margins. The flowers are 3,8-4,8 mm long with lanceolate-oval tepals, the stigmas are rounded at their tip. The winged fruit is 9–14 mm in diameter, their wings inserting below the middle, the tepal lobes forming a steep cone. The tube of the fruit is cylindric, its bottom with deep furrow-like, linear or curved pits. file:Halothamnus lancifolius fruit.JPG, fruit (lateral view) file:Halothamnus lancifolius fruit 2.JPG, fruit (bottom

Distribution

The distribution of ''Halothamnus lancifolius'' covers

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, Israel and

Palestine __NOTOC__ Palestine may refer to: * State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia * Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia * Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...

, Jordan, western Iraq, Egypt (

Sinai Sinai commonly refers to: * Sinai Peninsula, Egypt * Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt * Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God Sinai may also refer to: * Sinai, South Dakota, a place ...

) and northwestern Saudi Arabia. It grows on stony ground, often on salty soils, from 400 m below sea level up to 1500 m above sea-level.

Taxonomy

The species has been first described in 1853 by Pierre Edmond Boissier as ''Caroxylon lancifolium'' (In: Diagnoses plantarum orientalium novarum, ser. 1,12, Neocomi, 1853, p. 98).

Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich Gabriele is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name Surname *Al Gabriele, American comic book artist * Angel Gabriele (1956–2016), American comic book artist *Corrado Gabriele (born 1966), Italian polit ...

classified it at species rank into the genus ''

'' in 1993. Within the genus, it belongs to section ''Halothamnus''. ;Synonyms *''Caroxylon lancifolium'' Boiss. *''Salsola lancifolia'' (Boiss.) Boiss. *''Aellenia lancifolia'' (Boiss.) Ulbr. *''Aellenia glauca'' (Bieb.) Aellen subsp. ''lancifolia'' (Boiss.) Aellen *''Aellenia lancifolia'' (Boiss.) Aellen, nom.inval. ;Vernacular names: Hebrew:''Halothamnus lancifolius'' in Flora of Israel online
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References

Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich

Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1993, , p. 88-93

External links

Photos of ''Halothamnus lancifolius'' in Flora of Israel online

''Halothamnus lancifolius'' at Tropicos
{{Taxonbar, from=Q150464 lancifolius Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier