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Bassia scoparia Beck

  • 1. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia & Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
  • 2. Department of Plant Physiology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234, Moscow, Russia & Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
  • 3. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Moscow, Russia
  • 4. Institute of Steppe, Orenburg, Russia
  • 5. South Ural Botanical Garden-Institite, Ufa, Russia
  • 6. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Description

Bassia scoparia (L.) Beck

Bassia scoparia (L.) Beck in Reichenbach, Icon. Fl. Germ. Helv. 24: 155 (1909) ≡ Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad., Neues J. Bot. 3 ((3-4): 85 (1809) ≡ Chenopodium scoparia L., Sp. Pl. 1: 221 (1753).

= Suaeda sieversiana Pall., Ill. Pl.: 45 (1803) ≡ Kochia sieversiana (Pall.) C. A. Mey. in Ledeb., Fl. Altaic. 1: 415 (1829).

= Kochia scoparia var. densiflora Moq. in DC., Prodr. 13 (2): 131 (1849) ≡ Kochia densiflora (Moq.) Aellen, Mitt. Basler Bot. Ges. 2 (1): 13 (1954) ≡ Kochia scoparia subsp. densiflora (Moq.) Aellen in Hegi, Ill. Fl. Mitteleur., ed. 2, 3 / 2: 710 (1961).

Native status

Established alien.

Conservation status

Not applicable.

Distribution

Orenburg Region: Belyaevka, Buzuluk, Gai, Ilek, Kuvandyk, Novoorsk, Novosergievka, Perevolotsky, Ponomaryovka, Sol' - Iletsk, Sorochinsk, Totskoe Districts, Orenburg City (Fig. 54).

Previous reports: Ryabinina (1998), Knjazev (2009).

The species occurs along railroad beds, in populated places and their closest proximity.

The species is distributed as native in Central Asia (western China, Mongolia, southern Siberia). It is widely known as alien and naturalised in the temperate zone around the World. It spreads along roads and has arrived to the territory due to its formerly common cultivation as a technical plant (used for brooms in villages).

Notes

Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Beck
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Bassia
Species
scoparia
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Ryabinina Z. N. 1998 Synopsis of the flora of Orenburg Region Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences Ekaterinburg 164 Russian 5-7691 - 0833 - 9
  • Knjazev M. S. 2009 Chenopodiaceae Vent. Ryabinina Z. N., Knyazev M. S. Manual of vascular plants of Orenburg Region KMK Scientific Press Moscow 216-251 Russian 978 - 5 - 87317 - 572 - 7