Cultivated
A halophytic perennial shrub or woody herb ; up to 1 . 5-3 m tall , the whole plant is whitish to pale grey-green . Stems erect , woody at the base , much branched . Leaves alternate , 1 . 5-4 x 0 . 5-2 . 5 cm , silvery grey , ovate to oblong or elliptic , rounded to acute apex , broadly or narrowly cuneate at base , entire margins ; petioles 2-6 mm long . Inflorescences in mixed clusters in almost leafless terminal panicles . Flowers small , yellowish or green . Fruit numerous , kidney-shaped . Seeds 1 . 5 mm , brown to dark brown . (Ref . https://www . feedipedia . org) .
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Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Chenopodium halimus (L.) Thunb.
Obione halimus (L.) G.L.Chu
Schizotheca halimus (L.) Fourr.
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Saltbush
Mediterranean Saltbush
Sea Orache
Shrubby Orache
Silvery Orache
Tree Purslane
Not used traditionally. However, in Omani studies: Ghazanfar (2003) wrote that: "Cultivated in Oman as a hedge plant". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.1).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *https://www.feedipedia.org *Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 0748604758. *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
