Salsola cyrenaica subsp. antalyensis (Chenopodiaceae) from the S Anatolian coast near Finike is illustrated and describedas a new subspecies. Its anatomy, relationships, ecology and phytogeographyare discussed. The new subspecies differs from subsp. cyrenaica bythe reduced number of flowers per leaf axil, very dense axillary hairs, thesmaller size of most floral organs, mostly 3 instead of 2 stigmas and 5 not3 wings on the fruit. The new taxon grows in a narrow coastal strip of c.2kmonly, in open dwarf-shrub communities on limestone rocks from sea level toc.40m. It is the first representative of the S. longifolia group,sect. Coccosalsola, from Turkey and from the northern shores of theMediterranean.