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The genus Salsola is in the family Amaranthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Salsola

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Salsola abrotanoides Bunge	Accepted		TRO
Salsola acutifolia (Bunge) Botsch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola aegaea Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola affinis C.A.Mey. ex Schrenk	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola angolensis Botsch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola aperta Paulsen	Accepted		TRO
Salsola aphylla L.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola apiciflora Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola araneosa Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola arbuscula Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola arbusculiformis Drobow	Accepted		TRO
Salsola armata C. A. Sm. Ex Aell.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola atrata Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola baryosma (Schult.) Dandy	Accepted		TRO
Salsola brachiata Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola buhseana (Botsch.) Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola calluna Drege	Accepted		TRO
Salsola camphorosma Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Salsola canescens (Moq.) Boiss.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola capensis Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola carpatha P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola chinghaiensis A.J. Li	Accepted		TRO
Salsola chorassanica Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola collina Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola contrariifolia Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola crassa M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola dendroides Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola dinteri Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola drummondii Ulbr.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola dshungarica Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Salsola ericoides M. Bieb.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola ferganica Drobow	Accepted		TRO
Salsola foliosa (L.) Schrad. ex Schult.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola gaetula Maire	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola gemmifera Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola genistoides Juss. ex Poir.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola × gobicola Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Salsola griffithii (Bunge) Freitag & Khani	Accepted		TRO
Salsola heptapotamica Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Salsola ikonnikovii Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Salsola imbricata Forssk.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola incanescens C.A. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola jacquemontii Moq.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola junatovii Botschantz.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola kali L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola komarovii Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Salsola korshinskyi Drobow	Accepted		TRO
Salsola lanata Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola laricifolia Turcz. ex Litv.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola laricina Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola leptoclada Gand.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola littoralis Moq.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola longifolia Forssk.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola luederitzensis Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola makranica Freitag	Accepted		TRO
Salsola melitensis Botsch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola monoptera Bunge	Accepted		TRO
Salsola montana Litv.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola namibica Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola nitraria Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola nodulosa (Moq.) Iljin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola oppositifolia Desf.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola orientalis S.G. Gmel.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola papillosa (Coss.) Willk.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola passerina Bunge	Accepted		TRO
Salsola paulsenii Litv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola pellucida Litv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola pillansii Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola praecox (Litv.) Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Salsola rabieana Verd.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola richteri (Moq.) Karel ex Litv.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola rosacea L.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola rubescens Franch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola schweinfurthii Solms	Accepted		TRO
Salsola sclerantha C.A. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola scopiformis Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola soda L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola stellulata Korovin & Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Salsola subcrassa Popov	Accepted		TRO
Salsola tamariscina Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola titovii Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola tomentosa Spach ex Moq.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola tuberculata Fenzl	Accepted		TRO
Salsola tuberculatiformis Botsch.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola turcomanica Litv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola turkestanica Litv.	Accepted		TRO
Salsola vermiculata L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola webbii Moq.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Salsola zaidamica Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Salsola zygophylla Batt. & Trab.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 546 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Salsola. Of these 90 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 55 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Salsola. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 546 species names for the genus Salsola recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	90	16.5%
◕	Synonym	145	26.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	311	57.0%

All names

The status of the 601 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Salsola recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	95	15.8%
◕	Synonym	192	31.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	314	52.2%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 546 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Salsola, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	87	132	0	0	219	40.1%
	Low confidence	3	13	0	311	327	59.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Salsola, are as follows: