''Salsola kali'' was the botanical name for a species of flowering plants in the amaranth family, whose subspecies have been recently reclassified as two separate species in the genus
''Kali'':
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Kali tragus
is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is known by various common names such as prickly Russian thistle, windwitch, or common saltwort. It is widely known simply as tumbleweed because in many regions of the United State ...
'', formerly ''Salsola tragus'' or ''Salsola kali'' subsp. ''tragus'': a common weed of disturbed habitats, commonly known as prickly Russian thistle, windwitch, common saltwort, or tumbleweed.
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Kali turgidum
''Kali turgidum'' (synonym ''Salsola kali'' subsp. ''kali''), commonly known as prickly saltwort or prickly glasswort, is an annual plant that grows in salty sandy coastal soils.
Its distributional range is in Europe along the shores of Baltic ...
'', formerly ''Salsola kali'' subsp. ''kali'': a salt-resistant plant restricted to the shores of the Baltic Sea, North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, commonly known as prickly saltwort.
In 2014, Mosyakin et al. proposed to conserve ''Salsola kali'' (= ''Kali turgidum'') as nomenclatoral type for the genus ''
Salsola
''Salsola'' is a genus of the subfamily Salsoloideae in the family Amaranthaceae. The genus ''sensu stricto'' is distributed in central and southwestern Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean. A common name of various members of this genus an ...
''. If the proposal will be accepted, most species of genus ''Kali'' would belong to ''Salsola'' again, except for some little-known species that could be placed in the genus ''Soda'' Fourr.
References
Further reading
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* Walter Gutermann: Notulae nomenclaturales 41–45. Neue Namen bei ''Cruciata'' und ''Kali'' sowie einige kleinere Korrekturen (New names in ''Cruciata'', ''Kali'', and some small corrections). In: Phyton (Horn). 51 (1), 2011, p. 98.
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Amaranthaceae
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