Tamarix parviflora DC., Tamaricaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  no

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  High risk, score: 8 (Go to the risk assessment)

Common name(s): [more details]

English: salt-cedar, small-flower tamarisk

Habit:  shrub

Description:  "Tall shrub, 4 m high, with reddish brown bark. Leaves simple, alternate, sessile, ovate with somewhat auriculate base, 3-5 mm long 1-1.5 mm broad, acuminate. Racemes lateral, vernal, 24 cm long c. 5 mm broad. Flowers pinkish, tetra and pentamerous but more often tetramerous. Bracts longer than pedicel, trullate ovate, acuminate with a diaphanous blunt end, apex subobtuse, membranous at the margin, c. 2 mm long, c. 1 mm broad, pedicel c. 1 mm long. Calyx fused at the base, outer sepals acute, inner obtuse, ovate, denticulate, membranous at the margin, c. 1.5 mm long, 1 mm broad. Petals oblong, obovate, somewhat parabolic, 2-2.25 (-2.5) mm long, 1 mm broad, persistent, rarely subpersistent. Stamens 4 or 5 (depending upon tetra or pentamerous flowers), 3.54 mm long, filaments filiform confluent with the disc lobe, (epilophic disc), anthers 1 mm long, ovate, apiculate, Stigmas 3, somewhat club shaped, ovary conic. Capsule trigonous"  (Flora of Pakistan online).

Habitat/ecology:  (no habitat/ecology info known by PIER)

Propagation:  Seed and sprouting from stem fragments.

Native range:  Albania, Croatia, Greece (including Crete) Israel, Macedonia, Slovenia, Turkey (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Canada Province of British Columbia	Canada (British Columbia)	introduced invasive	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Naturalized
Canada Canada	Canada (country)	introduced invasive	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Ontario Naturalized
New Zealand New Zealand	New Zealand (country)	introduced invasive cultivated	Webb, C. J./Sykes, W. R./Garnock-Jones, P. J. (1988) (p. 1254) "Recently collected apparently wild on the Kaikoura coast, Marlborough, where a few scattered young bushes grew in a depression just behind sand dunes in an area distant from habitations. This is a commonly cultivated sp. in many areas of the country and like many Tamarix spp. can tolerate considerable exposure to salt-laden wind".
United States (west coast) United States (west coast states)	USA (Oregon)	introduced invasive	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Naturalized
United States (west coast) United States (west coast states)	USA (California)	introduced invasive	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Naturalized
United States (west coast) United States (west coast states)	USA (Washington)	introduced invasive	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Naturalized

Also reported from
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
United States (continental except west coast) United States (other states)	United States (other states)	introduced invasive	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Naturalized
United States (continental except west coast) United States (other states)	USA (Florida)	introduced	U.S. Dept. Agr., Nat. Res. Cons. Serv. (2011)

Additional information:
Information from the Global Invasive Species Database.
Information from the U.S. Forest Service Fire Effects Information System.

Additional online information about Tamarix parviflora is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Tamarix parviflora as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Tamarix parviflora may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Nat. Res. Cons. Serv. 2011. The PLANTS Database. National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Webb, C. J./Sykes, W. R./Garnock-Jones, P. J. 1988. Flora of New Zealand, Volume IV: Naturalised pteridophytes, gymnosperms, dicotyledons. Botany Division, DSIR, Christchurch. 1365 pp.