Suaeda aegyptiaca
Suaeda aegyptiaca (Hasselq.) Zohary
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Chenopodium aegyptiacum Hasselq.
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Chenopodium hortense (Forsk.) Roem. & Schult.
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Enchylaena aegyptiaca (Hasselq.) Spreng.
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Lerchia baccata (Forsk.) Kuntze
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Lerchia hortensis (Forsk.) Kuntze
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Salsola baccata (Forsk.) Poir.
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Salsola divergens Poir.
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Schanginia aegyptiaca (Hasselq.) Aellen
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Schanginia baccata (Forsk.) Moq.
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Schanginia hortensis (Forsk.) Moq.
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Schanginia linifolia Moq.
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Schoberia hortensis Steud.
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Suaeda baccata Forsk. ex J.F.Gmel.
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Suaeda baccata Forssk.
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Suaeda cavifolia Hausskn.
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Suaeda cavifolia Hausskn. ex Bornm. & Gauba
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Suaeda hortensis Forsk.
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Suaeda hortensis Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel.
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Suaeda maris-mortui Post
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Suaeda monoica Schimp.
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Suaeda monoica Schimp. ex Boiss.
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Suaeda platyphylla Ehrenb.
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Suaeda platyphylla Ehrenb. ex Boiss.
An annual or short-lived perennial, sappy-succulent, yellowish green to light green herb. Stems erect or decumbent, woody-based in older plants. Leaves linear, semiterete, up to 25 (-35) mm x 1 - 2.5 mm, dense on vegetative shoots. Inflorescence of dense, axillary flower-clusters in leafy racemosely arranged spikes. Flowers bisexual and female, the female smaller in size and with minute staminodes. Perianth-segments of bisexual flowers basally connate, incurved- hooded, membranous-margined, mucronate. Ovary adnate to the perianth tube. Stigmas 2 - 3 (-4). Fruiting perianth becoming enlarged, corky-spongy, enclosing the fruit and acting as a disseminule.
Saudi Arabia :A common weed of agricultural lands and waste places and frequent in coastal and inland saline areas.
Distribution : N. Africa, NE Tropical Africa, SW Asia, South Austrlaia.