Former genus of flowering plants
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]
The type species of the genus was Kali turgidum (now Salsola kali ). The genus consisted of ca. 23 species,[ 4] including:[ 5]
Kali australe (R.Br.) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola kali R.Br.
Kali basalticum C.Brullo, Brullo, Gaskin, Giusso, Hrusa & Salmeri = Salsola basaltica (C.Brullo, Brullo, Gaskin, Giusso, Hrusa & Salmeri) C.Brullo & Brullo
Kali collinum (Pall.) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola collina Pall.
Kali dodecanesicum C.Brullo, Brullo, Giusso, Ilardi = Salsola squarrosa Steven ex Moq.
Kali gobicola (Iljin) Brullo & Hrusa (2015) = Salsola × gobicola Iljin
Kali griffithii (Bunge) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola griffithii (Bunge) Freitag & Khani
Kali jacquemontii (Moq.) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola jacquemontii Moq.
Kali ikonnikovii (Iljin) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola ikonnikovii Iljin
Kali komarovii (Iljin) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola komarovii Iljin
Kali macrophyllum (R.Br.) Galasso & Bartolucci = Salsola australis R.Br.
Kali monopterum (Bunge) Lomon. = Salsola monoptera Bunge
Kali nepalensis (Grubov) Brullo, Giusso & Hrusa (2015) = Salsola jacquemontii Moq.
Kali paulsenii (Litv.) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola paulsenii Litv.
Kali pellucidum (Litv.) Brullo, Giusso & Hrusa = Salsola paulsenii Litv.
Kali praecox (Litv.) Sukhor. = Salsola praecox (Litv.) Litv.
Kali rosaceum (L.) Moench = Noaea rosacea (L.) Sennikov
Kali sinkiangense (A.J.Li) Brullo, Giusso & Hrusa = Salsola sinkiangensis A.J.Li
Kali ryanii (Hrusa & Gaskin) Brullo & Hrusa = Salsola ryanii Hrusa & Gaskin
Kali tamamschjanae (Iljin) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola tamamschjanae Iljin
Kali tamariscinum (Pall.) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola tamariscina Pall.
Kali turgidum (Dumort.) Guterm. = Salsola kali L.
Kali zaidamicum (Iljin) Akhani & E.H.Roalson = Salsola zaidamica Iljin
In 2014, Mosyakin et al. proposed to conserve Salsola kali (= Kali turgidum ) as nomenclatoral type for the genus Salsola . If the proposal will be accepted, all species of genus Kali would belong to Salsola again.[ 6] The General Committee of the XIX International Botanical Congress approved Mosyakin et al.'s proposal,[ 7] rendering the species related to Salsola kali as constituting the genus Salsola , while those related to Salsola soda should be transferred to another genus.[ 8]
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^ a b Vasey, G. (1892). "Report of the botanist" . Report of the Secretary of Agriculture . 1891 . United States Department of Agriculture: 341– 58.
^ Akhani, Hossein; Edwards, Gerald; Roalson, Eric H. (2007). "Diversification of the old world Salsoleae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae): molecular phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and chloroplast data sets and a revised classification" . International Journal of Plant Sciences . 168 (6): 931– 956. doi :10.1086/518263 . JSTOR 10.1086/518263 . S2CID 86789297 .
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^ Mosyakin, Sergei L.; Rilke, Sabrina; Freitag, Helmut (2014). "(2323) Proposal to conserve the name Salsola (Chenopodiaceae s.str.; Amaranthaceae sensu APG) with a conserved type" . Taxon . 63 (5): 1134– 1135. doi :10.12705/635.15 .
^ "Proposals and Disposals" . Smithsonian Institution .
^ Mosyakin, Sergei L.; et al. (2017). "Kali versus Salsola : the instructive story of a questionable nomenclatural resurrection". Israel Journal of Plant Sciences . 64 (1– 2): 18– 30.