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Suaeda maritima (Common Seablite) |
Suaeda maritima (AMARANTHACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands after year 2000. |
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| Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Suaeda maritima(L.) Dumort.
Published in Fl. Belg. 22 (1827) |
Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
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Plant Family : |
Amaranthaceae
Juss. (The Amaranth Family)
42 species from the Amaranthaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Common Seablite |
Maltese name(s) : |
Swejda tal-baħar |
Status for Malta : |
Indigenous. Present on the Maltese islands before man |
Frequency : |
Very Common Common Frequent Scarce Rare Very rare Extinct |
Growth form : |
Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: THEROPHYTE ( annual plants, herbaceous )
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon |
Legal Protection : |
Not legally protected till the last update of this website (2/Mar/2022) |
Red List (1989) : |
Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands |
Flowering Time : |
June – October |
Colour of Flowers: |
Inconspicuous |
Toxicity: |
Not particularly toxic |
Name Derivation : |
Suaeda:
maritima: Maritime; related to the coast or the seashore. (Latin origin )
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Planting in rural areas : |
Can be planted in rural areas according to ERA Guidelines |
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Description, Habitat and Distribution | |
Habitat in Europe: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. | |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Coastal areas, usually in degraded sites | |
Botanical Description: |
Annual up to 50(-100) cm, of very variable habit and colour. Leaves 10-50 x c. 1 mm, semi-cylindrical, acute or subobtuse. Cymes dense. Fruiting perianth not inflated, green or red. Seeds finely reticulate, usually horizontal. | |
Distributional range: |
Throughout most of Europe except the north-east and extreme north |
Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018): |
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Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
All Europe except the Azores, Doubtful in Crete, Faroe Islands, Switzerland, Iceland, Russia and former USSR, Svalbard archipelago |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(from Euro+Med Checklist, 2019)
Country codes
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?AE(G) Be(B) Bl(I M N) Br Ca(C F L T) Ct Da Es Fe Ga(F) Gr Hb(E N) Ho Hs(S) Lu No †Po †Rf(K) Rf(NW) Su [La] |
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Atlas Flora Europaea
GBIF Distribution map
