Erect or decumbent subshrub, mainly herbaceous it may reach 20 cm tall; stems succulent, leafless. The leaves are reduced to scales. Flowers minute.
Halosarcia indica (Willd.) Paul G.Wilson.
synonym | Salicornia brachiata Miq. |
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Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Habit: Erect or decumbent subshrub, herbaceous; it may reach 20 cm tall.
Trunk & bark: Stem branched, succulent, fleshy, more or less erect, terete, jointed, constricted at nodes; internode narrowed below and broadened above.
Leaves: The leaves are reduced to opposite scales.
Inflorescences or flowers: Inflorescence slender spikes. Flowers whitish, bisexual, minute, ternate in axils of scaly bracts and sunk in superposed and decussately opposite cavities of internodes, bracteoles 2; perianth calycine, obpyramidal; stamen one, anther oblong; ovary ovoid, stigmas 2, subulate.
Fruits: Fruits utricle, ovoid, membranous, enclosed in the spongy perianth.
Seeds /seedling: Seed pale brown, hispid with white hairs.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Crassulescent halophytes of the backmangroves zone. Common on saline mud flats, degraded mangrove areas and aquafarms.
Pollination by insects. Regeneration by epigeal germination.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Widespread along the tropical coasts of the Indian Ocean and in Australia. In Africa, it occurs from Somalia southwards to Mozambique, Madagascar and the other Indian Ocean islands, perhaps also occasionally in the west along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Young branches cooked are eaten as a vegetable, particularly in times of food scarcity. In Madagascar are used as a condiment (in vinegar).
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Least concern |
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Caryophyllales |
Family | Amaranthaceae |
Genus | Halosarcia |
Species | Halosarcia indica (Willd.) Paul G. Wilson. |