Anabasis aphylla L.

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Amaranthaceae > Anabasis

Characteristics

Subshrubs 20-50 cm tall. Woody stem much branched; branchlets gray-white, usually fissured annular; annual branches erect or obliquely spreading, simple or branched, fresh green; internodes numerous, terete, 0.5-1.5 cm. Leaves obscure or slightly scale-like, broadly triangular, apex obtuse or acute. Flowers 1-3 in leaf axils, forming spikes on upper part of branches; bractlets shorter than perianth, margin membranous. Outer 3 perianth segments suborbicular, proximally with a transverse wing abaxially; wing erect, light yellow or pink, flabellate, orbicular, or reniform, membranous; inner 2 perianth segments elliptic, wingless or small winged. Disk lobes linear, apex pectinate. Utricle vertical, subglobose, 1.5-2 mm in diam.; pericarp dark red, fleshy, smooth. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Oct.
Life form annual
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c4

Environment

Gobi desert, inter-dunes, gravelly alluvial fans, sometimes on arid slopes. Solonetzes, solonetzic solonchaks, takyrs, solonchak Haloxylon communities, loess sierozems, sands with a high brackish watertable, and old irrigated crop fields.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

Uses environmental use insecticide material medicinal non-vertebrate poison poison vertebrate poison
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Anabasis aphylla world distribution map, present in Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:163386-1
WFO ID wfo-0000532749
COL ID 66H3J
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Anabasis aphylla Anabasis tatarica Anabasis aphylla subsp. australis Anabasis aphylla subsp. rubra