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Description: Perennial cesspitous herbaceous or
subarbustiva plant. It has a woody little branched out stock and flowery
stems with form of stem. The leaves are simple, homomorphic, of 30 - 80
x 0.6 - 2 mm, and it arranges in a basal rosette or densely in the
branches; they are of linear spatulates, of obtuse apex , flat, with
the margin and the middle nerve glabrous or scantily ciliated. The
floripherus stalks or stems are erect or lightly knocked down. The
flowers arrange in scorpioid tops, are sessile or shortly stipitate. |
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Distribution:
Widely
distributed by the north hemisphere and the southern end of South
America. In Spain on the coast to the north of the river Duero. |
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Habitat: It lives in cliffs, reed-beds,
marshes, in generally sandy soils, in inclusive communities in the
class Salicornietea fruticosae in which geophyte, hemicriptophytes and
camephytes halophyles dominate in salt soils in major or minor degree
that they are of serious dampness. |
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reasons of the risk:
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Category IUCN: NT
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Culinary, medicinal and/or medicinal properties:
The cooked leaves
can be used as food and also the roots, in some places.It is little used
as medicinal plant, though the plant dried with flres has antibiotic
properties; it has been used in treatments against the obesity, nervous
disorders and urinary infections. It can produce dermatitis if it is
applied externally. |
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