| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Chenopodiaceae |
| Genus: | Salsola |
| Editor | Bektemir Osmonali |
| Name acc. to: | Mabberley D.J. 1997: The Plant Book, Freitag H. & Rilke S. 1997: Flora Iranica 172 |
| Herbar: | list records  |
| Description: | Little trees, shrubs or semi-shrubs, annuals. Leaves linear, sometimes filamentous or small. But it is often more or less thickened, fleshy and therefore cylindrical. The flowers are bisexual. |
| Confuse with: | Suaeda and Climacoptera |
| Tax. Comments: | APG III with about 150 species.. literature.... |
| Comments: | Cosmopolitan. Mostly on saline habitats. Difficult or sometimes impossible to determinate without fruits.
Use: ash in soap and glass making, locally eaten or cattle-fodder. |
| species: 32 |