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Salsola aphylla L.f.

Synonyms

Caroxylon aphyllum, Caroxylon brevifolium, Caroxylon salsola, Salsola caffra, Salsola caroxylon

Common names

Saltbush, lyebush, lye ganna, gannabos, rivierganna, loogasganna, asbos, beesganna

Saltbush (Salsola aphylla) with fluffy growth caused by gall midges (gall gnats, Cecidomyidae) in a village of Al Mashrab in area of Ras Laffan Farms. Northern Qatar, October 6, 2014 Saltbush Salsola aphylla with dense growth of white hairs caused by gall midges (gall gnats, Cecidomyidae) in a village of Al Mashrab in area of Ras Laffan Farms. Northern Qatar, October 6, 2014 Saltbush Salsola aphylla with clumps of white hair caused by gall midges (gall gnats, Cecidomyidae) in a village of Al Mashrab in area of Ras Laffan Farms. Northern Qatar, October 6, 2014 Clumps of white hair by gall midges (gall gnats, Cecidomyidae) of saltbush Salsola aphylla taken from a village of Al Mashrab in area of Ras Laffan Farms. Northern Qatar, October 6, 2014 Saltbush (Salsola aphylla) with fluffy growth caused by gall midges (gall gnats, Cecidomyidae) on rocky ridge of Jebel Fuwairit. Qatar, January 31, 2015 Fuwyrit Beach Road, Qatar Clumps of white hair caused by gall midges (gall gnats, Cecidomyidae) on saltbush Salsola aphylla on rocky ridge of Jebel Fuwairit. Qatar, January 31, 2015 Fuwyrit Beach Road, Qatar Saltbush (Salsola aphylla) taken from Purple Island (Jazirat Bin Ghanim). Al Khor, Qatar, May 29, 2015 Woolly growth on saltbush (Salsola aphylla) caused by gall midges (gall gnats, Cecidomyidae) taken from Purple Island (Jazirat Bin Ghanim). Al Khor, Qatar, May 29, 2015

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants: Qatar Plants-2014.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Salsola aphylla from www.theplantlist.org
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar
• Qatar Biodiversity - Plants
• Flora of Qatar
• Plants of UAE
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Plants of Saudi Arabia (Flickr/Salem Al Shekaili)
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Pictures from Qatar (Panoramio/safamarwa)

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.