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Annual glasswort (Salicornia spp., Microcnemum coralloides), seablite (Suaeda spp.) and saltwort (Salsola spp.) solonchak formations, colonizing periodically inundated muds of Black Sea coastal saltmarshes and of inland salt-basins of central Eurasian and Irano-Anatolian steppe and cold desert zones. Annual glasswort communities of salt steppes and saltmarshes of areas of extreme continentality within the boreal zone of Siberia.