{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon = Afrosalsola |authority = Akhani |display_parents = 3 }}
'''''Afrosalsola''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It includes two species of subshrubs or shrubs native to the Canary Islands, Morocco, Mauritania, and Western Sahara.<ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Afrosalsola'' Akhani |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77351703-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=3 December 2025}}</ref> *''Afrosalsola deschaseauxiana'' {{small|(Litard. & Maire) Akhani}} *''Afrosalsola divaricata'' {{small|(Masson ex Link) Akhani}}
They are shrubby halophytic plants with opposite and alternate branches and leaves. They have a distinct leaf anatomy with a hypodermis and kranz-like cells that perform C<sub>2</sub> photosynthesis, a C<sub>3</sub>-C<sub>4</sub> intermediate photosynthetic pathway. The species were formerly included in the genus ''Salsola'', which was found to be polyphyletic. In 2024 Hossein Akhani ''et al.'' described the new genus ''Afrosalsola'' to include the two species.<ref>Akhani H., Abdullahi H. . y Rudov A. (2024). ''Afrosalsola'' (Amaranthaceae-Chenopodiaceae), an intermediate C3-C4 lineage from NW Africa and the Canary Islands, and some new combinations in African species of ''Caroxylon'' and ''Soda''. ''Mediterranean Botany'', 45(2), e94654. https://doi.org/10.5209/mbot.94654</ref>
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Category:Amaranthaceae Category:Amaranthaceae genera Category:Plants described in 2024