Kali turgidum
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Subfamily: | Salsoloideae |
| Genus: | Kali |
| Species: | Kali turgidum |
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Kali turgidum (Dumort.) Guterm. |
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| Synonyms | |
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Salsola kali L. subsp. kali |
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Salsola kali L. subsp. kali
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 Sea, North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. In the Mediterranean and at dry inland places it is replaced by Kali tragus (syn. Salsola tragus or Salsola kali subsp. tragus), which is less tolerant to salty soils, and has spread from Eurasia to other continents.Kali turgidum does not seem to occur as an introduced species in America.
The species was first described in 1753 as Salsola kali by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum. Until 2007, it belonged to genus Salsola (sensu lato), but after molecular genetical research, this genus was split, and the species was placed into genus Kali Mill. (Syn.: Salsola sect. Kali Dum.). In genus Kali, the valid name is Kali turgidum (Dumort.) Guterm. (incorrectly as "turgida", Basionym: Salsola turgida Dumort., Fl. Belgica 23, 1827). The name Kali soda Moench used by Akhani et al. (2007) is invalid because of the older name Kali soda Scop. (a synonym of Salsola soda).
Kali turgidum belongs to tribe Salsoleae s. str.Kali turgidum, Kali tragus, and other closely related species form a species complex (Kali tragus-aggregate or formerly Salsola kali-aggregate). Some authors treat these species only on subspecies level. Then Kali tragus would be the valid name for the whole species complex, and Kali turgidum would be a subspecies of it.
In 2014, Mosyakin et al. proposed to conserve Salsola kali (= Kali turgidum) as nomenclatoral type for the genus Salsola. If the proposal will be accepted, all species of genus Kali would belong to Salsola again.
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