Amaranthaceae
Suaeda

Suaeda vermiculata Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel.

First published in Onomat. Bot. Compl. 8: 798 (1776)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Canary Islands, S. Medit. to Sahara and Arabian Peninsula, India, Sri Lanka. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit
Shrub to 1 m high, usually ± sprawling
Morphology Leaves
Leaves cylindrical or nearly so, up to 25 x 0.5–1.5 mm, often ± deflexed, glaucous, progressively decreasing along flowering stems
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Flowers bisexual, in rather small clusters, rarely contiguous into spikes
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
Perianth subglobose, deeply divided, c. 2.5 mm in diam.; ovary free from perianth, stigmas 3, filiform, c. 1.5 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruiting material from Somalia not seen, elsewhere utricle thin-walled, seed usually vertical, c. 1.5 mm in diam., glossy black.
Distribution
N1–3; ?S1 Red Sea coasts and north to the Jordan valley.
Ecology
Near sea level–400 m.
Vernacular
Darran, duran ad (Somali).
Note
The Eritrean and Somali material lacks the subglobose uppermost leaves of most Asian material.
[FSOM]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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  • Kew Science Photographs

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