Flora of Israel | Chenolea arabica, Bassia arabica
Chenolea arabica, Bassia arabica, Chenoleoides arabica,
Hebrew: כנולואה ערבית , בסיה ערבית, Arabic: قضقاض عربي لات
| Scientific name: | Chenolea arabica ( Boiss.) Diagn. Pl. Orient | |
| Synonym name: | Bassia arabica, Chenoleoides arabica | |
| Common name: | Chenolea arabica | |
| Hebrew name: | כנולואה ערבית , בסיה ערבית | |
| Arabic name: | قضقاض عربي لات | |
| Family: | Chenopodiaceae, Goosefoot family, סלקיים |
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| Life form: | Chamaephyte, perennial undershrub densely branched. 50-70 cm high, 20-30 cm diameter, lower branches decumbent. | |
| Spinescence: | absent | |
| Succulence: | leaf succulence | |
| Stems: | In young stem the outline of stem in cross section is wavy terete, 0.9-1 mm diameter, hairy; hairs, multicellular, uniseriate, papillate covered with wavy cutine with swollen basal cell and acute apical cell. | |
| Leaves: | Leaves pseudopetiolate, oblong-narrow ovate with obtuse tips, 18-30×1.2-2.5 mm. | |
| Inflorescence: | Inflorescence spicate with only one sessile flower in the axil of leaf like bract. | |
| Flowers: | Hermaphrodite, or by abortion, polygamous. Perigonium urn-shaped, with 5, short, fleshy, somewhat keeled, woolly lobes, becoming indurate; stamen 5, inserted at the bottom of the perigonium, anthers exerted; ovary ovate, style divided into 2, filiform lobes | |
| Fruits / pods: | Fruiting perianth slightly enlarged with the lobes membranous. Seeds wide ovate, pale to dark brown | |
| Flowering Period: | March, April, May, June, July | |
| Habitat: | Salty habitats | |
| Distribution: | Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts | |
| Chorotype: | Saharo-Arabian | |
| Summer shedding: | Perennating |
 Derivation of the botanical name: Chenolea, Greek χήνα, a goose, and λεία, a prey. arabica, of Arabia.
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