Trianthema salsoloides Fenzl ex Oliv.
var. transvaalensis (Schinz) Adamson

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Trianthema salsoloides var. transvaalensis

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Road no. 2 near crossing with 6, Gorongosa National Park

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Synonyms:	Trianthema transvaalensis Schinz
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Status:	Native
Description:	Somewhat fleshy, papillose annual herb with prostrate or ascending stems up to c. 50 cm long radiating from the crown of a taproot, often reddish in this variety. Leaves opposite, fleshy, linear to narrowly oblong-ovate or narrowly obovate, up to 15 mm long, persistent in this variety during flowering time; leaf-base expanded with 2 stipular lobes; margin sometimes with minute papillose teeth. Flowers c. 3 mm long, sessile, densely crowded on short lateral branchlets, densely hispid. Perianth lobes with a brownish margin and a fleshy subapical murco; perianth-tube much shorter than lobes, obconical with 5 more or less prominent tubercles at the base of the sinuses between the lobes. Fruit with a prominent thickened ring around the lid.
Notes:	See var. stenophylla and var. salsaloides for comparison.
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Habitat:	In depressions on basalt and in black soils, at margins of riverine vegetations, on sandy and saline soils.
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Worldwide distribution:	(This variety) Mozambique, southern Zimbabwe, ?Botswana and Mpumalanga South Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	MS,GI
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Content last updated:	Friday 6 October 2017
Literature:	Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 20. as Trianthema salsoloides Gonçalves, M.L. (1978). Aizoaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 517 - 519. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 15. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 20.

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