Caroxylon salsola Thunb., 1782

Mucina, Ladislav, 2017, Caroxylon (Chenopodiaceae s. str.) in continental southern Africa and Madagascar: a preliminary nomenclatural synopsis and biogeographical considerations, Phytotaxa 312 (2), pp. 151-178 : 169

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.312.2.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13702334
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scientific name	Caroxylon salsola Thunb.
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76. Caroxylon salsola Thunb. View in CoL in Nova Genera Plantarum 2: 37 (1782).

Type (designated here): ― [ SOUTH AFRICA]. Promont. Bonae Spei [Cape of Good Hope]: Thunberg s.n. (lectotype S07-809 !; isolectotypes S07-808 !; S07-810 !; S-G-7074!) .

Notes: ― This is the type of the genus Caroxylon , considered a taxonomic synonym ( Botschantzev 1974a: 604; Setshogo 2005; Germishuizen et al. 2006; Klopper et al. 2006) of Salsola aphylla (reclassified by Tzvelev 1993 as Caroxylon aphyllum ).

Distribution: ― South Africa (WC): probably southern Namaqualand.