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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. |
| 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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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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