Kali (plant)

Kali
Kali tragus in fruit
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Salsoloideae
Tribe: Salsoleae
Genus: Kali
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Species

13 species; see text.

Kali was a genus of plants in the subfamily Salsoloideae in the family Amaranthaceae, that has now been subsumed into the genus Salsola.[1]

Common names of various members of this genus include buckbush, rolypoly,[2] tumbleweed for its wind-blown seed dispersal habit, and Tartar thistle[3] and Russian thistle for its origins.[3]

  1. ^ Plants of the world Online (retrieved 4 March 2024)
  2. ^ Lucid Keys, LucidCentral.org
  3. ^ a b Vasey, G. (1892). "Report of the botanist". Report of the Secretary of Agriculture. 1891. United States Department of Agriculture: 341–58.