Allenrolfea occidentalis

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Iodinebush
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Allenrolfea
Species:
A. occidentalis
Binomial name
Allenrolfea occidentalis
(S.Wats.) Kuntze
Synonyms [1]
  • Allenrolfea mexicana Lundell
  • Halostachys occidentalis S. Watson

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

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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]

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References

  1. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".
  2. 1 2 Shultz, L.M.: 'eFloras 2008. Allenrolfea occidentalis in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  3. Shultz, L.M.: 'eFloras 2008. Allenrolfea in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  4. 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

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