Ecology :

Tidal inlets, lagoons; seasonally inundated Suaeda-Avicennia mangrove swamps bordering Hyphaene-Sclerocarya wooded grassland; salt marshes; intertidal mudflats down to spring tide level; sandy beaches; muddy hollows in black cotton soil; moist valley bottoms in Combretum woodland; edges of rice fields; waste places; saline seepages; springs on gravel; lakesides; alkaline soils; gueltas; inselbergs (Porembski & Brown in Candollea 50: 358, 1995; Tindano in Bois & Forêts Trop. 325: 26, 2015); 0-2500 m alt. – Adapted to halophytic conditions and normally found towards coastal areas and near brackish waters. In inland areas also it is found in saline soils.