Bassia All. Bassia Bassia, (Pallas) Volk

12. Bassia All. 1

Pubescent herbs. Leaves linear, flat or cylindrical, entire. Flowers hermaphrodite or female, solitary or in cymes arranged in a panicle. Perianth-segments 5, becoming enlarged in fruit and developing a spine on the back; stamens 5; stigmas 2-3. Seeds horizontal. ( Echinopsilon Moq. )

1 Leaves linear-lanceolate, flat, attenuate towards the base; spines of the perianth 1-1-5 mm 1. hyssopifolia 1 Leaves semicylindrical or filiform, rarely the lowest ± flat; spines of the perianth usually not more than 1 mm

2 Spines of perianth pubescent; stem usually procumbent or ascending 2. hirsuta 2 Spines of perianth glabrous in the upper part; stem erect

3. sedoides

1. B. hyssopifolia (Pallas) Volk , in Engler & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. 3 (la): 70 (1893)

( Kochia hyssopifolia (Pallas) Schrader ).

Erect, white, hirsute or villous annual 10-100 cm; branches erect. Leaves up to 35 x 4 mm, linear-lanceolate, flat, attenuate at base. Perianth villous-lanate; spines 1-1-5 mm, subulate, curved, glabrous. Saline soils and cultivated ground. From Moldavia to W. Kazakhstan; N.E. & S.E. Spain. Hs Rs (W. K, E) [Ga].