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It includes several varieties that are often examples of environmental adaptation: such as A. elon-
gata Guss. – Nitrophilous, but capable to adapt in different environments: muddy and clayey
ground, as well as sandy lands near the sea. –– Very common in Sicily; less frequent in muddy
ground. Palermo ai Ficarazzi, Bagheria, Mondello, Brolo, Messina, Catania, Siracusa,
Spaccaforno, Comiso alla Berdia, Girgenti, Trapani, Mazzara, Saline, Marettimo (Gussone 1845:
sub A. triangularis Willd.); Trapani alle Saline (Ponzo 1900); Sicilia (Lojacono 1904); Licata:
Pisciotto (Sortino & Di Martino 1974). – CC.
223. Atriplex elongata Guss., Fl. Sicul. Syn. 2 (2): 592 (1845)
Different from A. hastata according to Lojacono (1904: 285). – Salt ground. – Trapani fuori la
porta di Palermo (Gussone 1845); Trapani alle Saline (Ponzo 1900); Trapani fuori la porta di
Palermo, Agosta (Gussone) (Lojacono 1904); Messina (Borzì) (Zodda 1908); Siracusa (Zodda
1929). – C
* Atriplex ambigua Lojac., Fl. Sicul. 2 (2): 286 (1904)
Taxonomically doubtful, perhaps close to A. laciniata. – Maritime localities. – Trapani (PAL)
(Lojacono 1904). To be investigated. – ?RR.

224. Halimione portulacoides (L.) Aellen in Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 49: 126 (1938)
[Atriplex portulacoides L., Sp. Pl.: 1053 (1753); Obione portulacoides (L.) Moq.; incl.
O. cupani (Tineo) Nicotra]
Salt ground on the coast, generally close to the sea. – Everywhere in the coastland, but not
reported in the Tyrrhenian coast of Messina. – CC.

225. Camphorosma monspeliaca L., Sp. Pl.: 122 (1753) [incl. C. vigintimilleis Tineo]
Dry and salt localities near the sea. – Termini, Melazzo, Olivieri, tra Catania e Agosta al fonda-
co dell’Agnone verso la Punta di S. Calogero (Gussone 1827); Brucoli (Brullo 1975); Capaci
(herb. PAL), Terrasini presso il mare (Troìa), Punta Raisi (Marcenò, in verbis) (Pasta & Troìa
1994); S. Nicola l’Arena a Torre Normanna (Raimondo & al. 2004); Brucoli on cliffs at the
Porticciolo greco-romano! – R.
226. Bassia saxicola (Guss.) A. J. Scott in Feddes Repert. 89 (2-3): 108 (1978) [Bas.
Kochia saxicola Guss., Enum. Pl. Inarim.: 275, t. 13 (1855)]
E– Cliffs. – Discovered at Strombolocchio (Eolie Islands) in a single individual by Lojacono
(1902). In danger of extinction. Latest inspection by Ferro & Furnari (1968). – RR.
227. Bassia laniflora (S. G. Gmel.) A. J. Scott in Feddes Repert. 89(2-3): 108 (1978) [Bas.
Salsola laniflora S. G. Gmel., Reise Russland 1: 160, t. 37 (1770-1774); Kochia are-
naria (Maerklin) Roth]
Salt sands. – Trapani at the saline and at the Ronciglio (PAL) (Ponzo 1900: 112). Distretto dre-
pano-panormitano (Brullo & al. 1995 a). – RR.
228. Bassia scoparia (L.) A. J. Scott in Feddes Repert. 89(2-3): 108 (1978) [Bas.
Chenopodium scoparia L., Sp. Pl.: 221 (1753); Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad.]
Meadows. – Frequently cultivated and naturalized in a slope in Contrada Pisciotto near Licata
(Raimondo & al. 2005). – RR.
229. Corispermum leptopterum (Asch.) Iljin in Izv. Glavn. Bot. Sada S.S.S.R. 28: 653
(1929) [Bas. Corispermum hyssopifolium var. leptopterum Asch. in Asch. & Graebn.,
Fl. Nordostdeut. Flachl.: 287 (1898)]