Suaeda maritima (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumortier

Family: Chenopodiaceae

Vernacular names

• Sea-blite (En)
• Indonesia: alur, malur (Java)
• Thailand: chakhram (central)
• Vietnam: phì diệp biển, thụy diển nam.

Distribution

Europe, northern Africa, Asia, Australia, North America.

Uses

In Java, young parts of this very salty plant are eaten as a vegetable after boiling .

Observations

• Perennial, polymorphous, glabrous, much branched, succulent herb, 7-50 cm tall, often partly or entirely purple.
• Leaves fleshy, narrowly linear, semi-terete, 1-4.5 cm long.

On moist, saline, clayey soils near the sea, often growing gregariously.

Selected sources

7, 33, 66, 91.