EcoFlora - Tamarix

Tamarix
Family: Tamaricaceae Leslie Landrum	Gleason & Cronquist Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Stamens 4-5; pet often long-persistent; ovary conic; placentas basal or nearly so; styles 3-4, short-clavate or obovate; fr conic, separating completely into 3 or 4 valves; deciduous shrubs or trees with small, scale-like, often imbricate lvs and numerous small fls in racemes or spikes borne on the old wood or aggregated into a terminal panicle. 50, Old World. Two spp. occasionally escape from cult. in our range, but are scarcely members of our established flora. T. parviflora DC. has 4-merous fls, with the filaments seated on the 4 lobes of the disk. T. chinensis Lour. has 5-merous fls, with the filaments arising from (or just outside) the sinuses of the 5-lobed disk (the disk lobes often emarginate). (T. ramosissima; T. pentandra, an illegitimate name) Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: Pilar Tamarix africana Map not Available Tamarix amplexicaulis Map not Available Tamarix aphylla Map not Available Tamarix aralensis Map not Available Tamarix arborea Images not available Map not Available Tamarix arceuthoides Map not Available Tamarix boveana Images not available Map not Available Tamarix canariensis Map not Available Tamarix chinensis Map not Available Tamarix dioica Map not Available Tamarix elongata Images not available Map not Available Tamarix florida Map not Available Tamarix gallica Map not Available Tamarix germanica Map not Available Tamarix gracilis Images not available Map not Available Tamarix hispida Map not Available Tamarix hohenackeri Map not Available Tamarix indica Map not Available Tamarix jordanis Map not Available Tamarix kotschyi Map not Available Tamarix leptostachya Images not available Map not Available Tamarix litwinowii Map not Available Tamarix macrocarpa Map not Available Tamarix mannifera Images not available Map not Available Tamarix mascatensis Map not Available Tamarix meyeri Map not Available Tamarix nilotica Map not Available Tamarix palaestina Map not Available Tamarix parviflora Map not Available Tamarix passerinoides Map not Available Tamarix pycnocarpa Map not Available Tamarix senegalensis Images not available Map not Available Tamarix smyrnensis Map not Available Tamarix stricta Images not available Map not Available Tamarix tetragyna Map not Available Tamarix usneoides Images not available Map not Available