Amaranthaceae FAMILY
Salicornia pachystachya
Salicornia pachystachya
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Salicornia pachystachya is an erect annual plant that grows up to 40cm tall. The stem has numerous suberect or ascending lateral branches; the plant is seemingly leafless, but the stems comprise numerous superposed, more or less tubular succulent segments, each segment at apex forming a little cup with 2 short teeth embracing the base of the next higher segment[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeEast Africa - coastal areas from Kenya to S. Africa, Madagascar and other African Indian Ocean islands.
HabitatSalt marshes and mangrove swamps at sea-level near coasts[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. Saline-water swamp forest with Avicennia marina and Lumnitzera racemosa mangrove; in more open parts with Suaeda on yellow sandy clay; at sea-level[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ].