Ephedra foeminea

Ephedra foeminea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gnetales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Classis: Gnetopsida Ordo: Gnetales

Familia: Ephedraceae
Genus: Ephedra
Species: Ephedra foeminea

Name

Ephedra foeminea Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 219 (1775).

• Typus: [NW Turkey] "Imbros", Forsskål no. 794 (Holotypus: C).

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Ephedra major Host, Fl. Austriac. 2: 671 (1831), nom. rej.
  • Ephedra campylopoda C.A.Mey., Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math., Seconde Pt. Sci. Nat. 5: 73 (1846).
    • Ephedra fragilis var. campylopoda (C.A.Mey.) Stapf, Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 56(2): 56 (1889).
    • Ephedra fragilis subsp. campylopoda (C.A.Mey.) K.Richt., Pl. Eur. 1: 8 (1890).
  • Ephedra macedonica Košanin, Glas Srpske Kral. Akad. 119: 21 (1926).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe Regional: Southeastern Europe Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia. Continental: Africa Regional: Northern Africa Libya. Regional: Northeast Tropical Africa Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia. Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Western Asia Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey. Regional: Arabian Peninsula Saudi Arabia, Yemen. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Forsskål, P. (†). 1775. Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. Sive descriptiones plantarum, quas per Aegyptum inferiorem et Arabiam felicem detexit, illustravit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Ex officina Mölleri, Hauniae [Copenhagen]. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.41 BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Freitag, H. & Maier-Stolte, M. 1989. The Ephedra-species of P. Forsskal: Identity and typification. Taxon 38(4): 545–556. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Christensen, K.I. 1997. Ephedra. Pp. 15–17 in Strid, A. & Tan, K. (eds.), Flora Hellenica. Volume One (Gymnospermae to Caryophyllaceae). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 547 pp. ISBN 3-87429-391-2. Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Ephedra foeminea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 Jan 20. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2023. Ephedra foeminea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 20 Jan 2023.
• International Plant Names Index. 2023. Ephedra foeminea. Published online. Accessed: 20 Jan 2023.
• Hassler, M. 2023. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Ephedra foeminea. Accessed: 20 Jan 2023.
• Euro+Med 2006 onwards: Ephedra foeminea in Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published online. Accessed: 2023 Jan 20.

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