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Latin (Botanical) name: Atriplex leucoclada Boiss.

Family: Chenopodiaceae

Common name: Saltbush, Shagaret el-bayadeen, Borghol, Roghl, Rughl, Ghorlum, Ghorlm.

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

CHENOPODIACEAE Vent. : Leaves flat, broad. (Note also Kochia indica of next group with sometimes rather broad leaves). Shrubs. Leaves alternate. The same not fleecy. ATRIPLEX. Herbs. Fruit enclosed in in 2 flat, leaf-like bracts. ATRIPLEX L. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves flat, generally alternate and frequently mealy, scaly or closely tomentose. Flowers polygamous, the male ones with 5-lobed perianth and 5 staments, the female ones with the ovary included between 2 flat, leaf-like bracts, connate at base and later growing in size enclosing the fruit. Perennials. Fruit-perianth glabrous, leaves otherwise. Flowers in leafy spikes or axillary : shrublets, mostly 1m. Leaves mostly 2 cm. long. Leaves triangular, broad-based distinctly petioled ATRIPLEX LEUCOCLADA Boiss.: shrub, to 50 cm., silvery or not, with whitish branches. Leaves thin, membraneous, 2 cm. long and broad, triangular, dentate-lobed, short-petioled. Spike lax, few-branched. Fruit-perianth broadest above the middle, bell-shaped, in the type berbaceous, smooth, 3-lobed with the central lobe longer than the latereal ones. Faces with or without  2 small tubercles.

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), annual herb or perennial shrub in Upper Egypt.

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