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|accepted_name=Salsola kali
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 222. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Common saltwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Salsola;Salsola kali
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Salsola]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Salsola kali]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 399, 401
|treatment_page=page 400
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> 5–50 cm, papillose to hispid or, occasionally, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, branched from base; branches arcuate or, occasionally, almost prostrate. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; blade linear, mostly 1–2 mm wide in herbarium specimens, fleshy, usually not swollen at base, apex ± acuminate into rather firm, 1–1.5(–2.2) mm spine. <b>Inflorescences</b> interrupted at maturity, usually 1-flower per axil of bract; bracts alternate, not imbricate at maturity, reflexed, not distinctly swollen at base, apex narrowing into subulate spine. <b>Flowers</b>: bracteoles free or becoming connate and adnate to perianth base; perianth segments with comparatively narrow wing or in lower flowers occasionally wingless (in <i>S. kali </i>subsp.<i> pontica</i> sometimes prominently winged), with weak or firm, acute apex, glabrous; fruiting perianth 4–6(–8) mm diam. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=coastal areas of Europe;n Africa;sw Asia;introduced and naturalized in other coastal regions.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies ca. 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perianth segments with rigid, subspinose apex and prominent midvein; bracteoles distinct, not swol- len
|[[Salsola kali subsp. kali|Salsola kali subsp. kali]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perianth segments with weak apex and obscure midvein; bracteoles connate at base, swollen
|[[Salsola kali subsp. pontica|Salsola kali subsp. pontica]]
|}
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name=Salsola kali
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|distribution=coastal areas of Europe;n Africa;sw Asia;introduced and naturalized in other coastal regions.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Salsola
|species=Salsola kali
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