Allenrolfea occidentalis

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Salicornioideae
Tribus: Salicornieae
Genus: Allenrolfea
Species: Allenrolfea occidentalis
Name

Allenrolfea occidentalis (S.Watson) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 546. (1891)
Synonyms

Basionym
Halostachys occidentalis S.Watson, Botany (Fortieth Parallel) 293. (1871)
Type: USA: Utah; Raft River Valley, 1868, Sereno Watson #995. Isotypes: NY00324352, YU001077
Homotypic
Spirostachys occidentalis (S.Watson) S.Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 125. (1874)
Salicornia occidentalis (S.Watson) Greene, Fl. Francisc. 173. (1891)
Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2018)
Allenrolfea mexicana Lundell, Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 21: 127, pl. 14. (1936)
Type: Mexico: San Luis Potosi: collected on the sand dunes of the salt lake at Santo Domingo, 7 Aug 1934, C.L. Lundell 5603. Holotype: MICH1147734. Isotypes: CAS0000222, GH00036864, K000583250, LL00370674, MO-125891, NY00022721, S-G-7077, TEX00370673, UC602643, US, WISv0254586WIS.
Arthrocnemum macrostachyum Torr., Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound., Bot. [Emory] 184. (1859), nom. illeg. (later homonym of Arthrocnemum macrostachyum (Moric.) K.Koch 1853)
Salicornia californica Nutt. ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 151. (1849), nom. inval. in syn.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Northern America
Northwestern U.S.A.
Idaho (s.), Oregon (s.e.)
Southwestern U.S.A.
Arizona, California (e.), Nevada, Utah
South-Central U.S.A.
New Mexico, Texas (w.)
Mexico
Mexico (Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas)

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Greene, E.L. 1891–1897. Flora Franciscana. An attempt to classify and describe the vascular plants of middle California. (1: i-ii, 1-128. 1891; 2: 129-280. 1891; 3: i-ii, 281-352. 1892; 4: 353-480, 1897). BHL Reference page. 2: 173
Kuntze, O. 1891. Revisio generum plantarum vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Pars II. Pp. 377–1011. Arthur Felix, Leipzig [etc.]. BHL Reference page. : 546
Lundell, C.L. 1936. A new species of Allenrolfea from Mexico. Annual Report of the Michigan Academy of Science 21: 127–128, pl. 14. HathiTrust Reference page. : 127
Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Salsolaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 41–219. Masson, Paris. BHL Reference page. : 151
Torrey, J. 1859. Botany of the Boundary. In: Emory, W.H. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Vol. 2(1): 27–270, pl. 1–61. BHL Reference page. : 184
Watson, S. 1871. Botany. In: United States Geological Expolration of the Fortieth Parallel [sic!]. Vol. 5. BHL Reference page. : 293
Watson, S. 1874. A revision of the North American Chenopodiaceae. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 9: 82–126. BHL Reference page. : 125

Additional references

Shultz, L.M.:
eFloras 2008. Allenrolfea occidentalis in Flora of North America . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Jansen, R. & Parfitt, B. 1977. Allenrolfea mexicana Lundell (Chenopodiaceae): Its conspecificity with A. occidentalis (S.Wats.) Kuntze. Rhodora 79(817): 130–132. BHL Reference page.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Allenrolfea occidentalis. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Dec. 17. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Allenrolfea occidentalis. Published online. Accessed: Jul. 06 2016.
The Plant List 2013. Allenrolfea occidentalis in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Jul. 06.
Tropicos.org 2016. Allenrolfea occidentalis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 Jul. 2016.

Vernacular names
English: iodinebush

Allenrolfea occidentalis, the iodine bush, is a low-lying shrub of the Southwestern United States, California, Idaho, and northern Mexico.[2]

It grows in sandy, often salty, distinctly alkaline soils, such as desert washes and saline dry lakebeds. It is a common halophyte member of the alkali flat ecosystem.[2]

Description

The knobby green stems are fleshy and appear jointed at the internodes between segments. Often the segments are so short they are nearly round. The leaves appear as flaky scales scattered across the surface of the stems. The genus was named for the English botanist Robert Allen Rolfe.[3]

The seeds of iodinebush have been used as food in North America in prehistory.[4]
References

"The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".
Shultz, L.M.: 'eFloras 2008. Allenrolfea occidentalis in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Shultz, L.M.: 'eFloras 2008. Allenrolfea in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Rhode, David; Madsen, David B.; Jones, Kevin T. (2006) Antiquity of early Holocene small-seed consumption and processing at Danger Cave Archived 2012-07-07 at archive.today Antiquity 80(308):328-339