Saltia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Amaranthaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Saltia
Species: S. papposa
Name

Saltia R.Br. ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 325. (1849)

Type species: Saltia papposa (Forssk.) Moq.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Africa
East Tropical Africa
Tanzania
Asia-Temperate
Western Asia
S-Sinai
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia, Yemen

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

Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Amarantaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 231–424. Masson, Paris. BHL. Reference page. : 325

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Saltia. 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. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 08. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Saltia. Published online. Accessed: Jan. 08 2019.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Saltia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jul. 15. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Saltia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 08 Jan. 2019.

Saltia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It just contains one species, Saltia papposa (Forssk.) Moq. [1] It is in the Amaranthoideae subfamily.

It is native to Saudi Arabia and Yemen,[2][3] in the Arabian Peninsula.[1][4] It is found on gravel plains with other shrubs.[5]

The genus name of Saltia is in honour of Henry Salt (1780–1827), an English artist, traveller, collector of antiquities, diplomat, and Egyptologist.[6] The Latin specific epithet of papposa refers to pappus the wind-dispersal mechanism for the seeds. It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.13 (Series 2) on page 325 in 1849.[1]
References

"Saltia R.Br. ex Moq. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
Gabali, Dr. Saeed Abdo; Al-Gifri, Abdul-Nasser (1990). "Flora of South Yemen — Angiospermae A provisional checklist". Feddes Repertorium. 101 (7–8): 373–383.
J. R. I. Wood A Handbook of the Yemen Flora (1997), p. 26, at Google Books
Al-Khulaidi, Abdul Wali Ahmed; Al-Qadasi, Abdul Habib; Al-Hawshabi, Othman Saad Saeed (September 2020). "NATURAL PLANT SPECIES INVENTORY OF THE IMPORTANT PLANT AREAS IN ARABIAN PENINSULA: BANI OMAR, TAIZ GOVERNORATE, REPUBLIC OF YEMEN". EJUA-BA. 3: 135–149.
S.A. Ghazanfar and M. Fisher (Editors) Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (1998), p. 269, at Google Books
Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.