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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Tamaricaceae
Tamarix

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 270 (1753).

Derivation: Latin tamarix, the tamarisk.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Tamarisks.

Description:
Glabrous or partly papillose trees and shrubs; leaves scale-like, expanded to a more or less amplexicaul base, possessing salt-secreting glands.

Flowers in spikes or racemes, pink or white; sepals and petals 4 or 5; disk fleshy, 4- or 5-lobed, nectar-secreting; stamens free or shortly fused at the base only; styles 3 or 4, short.

Seeds lacking endosperm, with a tuft of hairs at the apex.

Distribution:  About 54 species in Europe, North Africa and Asia, especially in soils with a high salt content.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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