The Australian Plant Census (APC) is a list of the accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, ferns, gymnosperms, hornworts and liverworts, both native and introduced, and includes synonyms and misapplications for these names. The APC covers all published scientific plant names used in an Australian context in the taxonomic literature, but excludes taxa known only from cultivation in Australia. The taxonomy and nomenclature adopted for the APC are endorsed by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH).
Showing Salsola
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Caryophyllanae(superordo)
- Caryophyllales(ordo)
- Chenopodiaceae(fam.)
- Salsola(gen.)
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A satisfactory taxonomic treatment of the genus Salsola in Australia is still lacking. P.G.Wilson, Fl. Australia 4: 314 tentatively referred Australian material to S. kali s.l., while S.Rilke, Biblioth. Bot. 149: 1-190 (1999) treated Australian plants as S. tragus (with three subspecies, subsp. tragus, subsp. grandiflora and subsp. pontica), although little Australian material was examined in that study. C.P.B.Borger et al., Austral. J. Bot. 56: 600-608 (2008) studied Salsola populations in the south-west of Western Australia, and referred material to S. australis (syn. S. kali subsp. austroafricana; often regarded as synonymous with either S. kali or S. tragus subsp. tragus) and S. tragus subsp. tragus. The findings of Borger et al. are corroborated in part by G.F.Hrusa & J.F.Gaskin, Madrono 55: 113-131 (2008), who suggest that Australian Salsola represents a separate species complex, of which S. australis is the "typical form". R.J.Chinnock, J. Adelaide Bot. Garden 24: 75-80 (2010) adopts the name S. australis for plants in WA and SA. -
WA, NT, SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW, ACT (naturalised), Vic, Tas (naturalised)
