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''[[Reaumuria alternifolia]]'' (Labill.) Britten

'''Local name''':
*Russian: Реомюрия кустарниковая, иссек - reomjurija kustarnikovaja, issek
*Uzbek: Issek

'''Description and morphology''': Dwarf shrub (height up to 80 cm), glaucous, uneven stiff, sometimes prickly, branches. Leaves: leathery or fleshy, small (scale-shaped), alternate, perforated, light green. Flowers: bisexual; actinomorphic, interrupted spikes, small, with nectariferous disk; 4–10 (rarely 12–14) stamens accreted at base. Pollen grains 2-celled, 3– 4-colpate. Ovary superior with numerous ovules. Ovule anatropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate.

'''Reproduction''': Sexual. Anemophilous. Fruit: cartilaginous capsule dehiscing with 5 valves. Seed: fleshy, erect embryo and undeveloped endosperm, covered by long unicellular hairs.

'''Pastoral importance''': Seeds and leaves grazed by gazelles in summer, possibly as a source of salt.

'''Habitat''': Xero-halophyte. Occurs on saltmarshes and saline flats (solonchak-alkaline soils).

'''Distribution''': Irano-Turanian region (western Turkmenia, Central Karakum, Kyzylkum and Aral region). 


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