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Internal ID UUID643ff7f0b2b93577092804
Scientific name Polycarpaea repens
Authority Asch. & Schweinf. ex Asch.
First published in Oesterr. Bot. Z. 39: 126 (1889)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Polycarpaea fragilis Delile Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. : 209 (1813)
Corrigiola repens Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 207. 1775 [1 Oct 1775]

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic كميلة
Arabic مكور
Arabic ريخة مكر

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  • Africa
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Sudan
    • Northern Africa
      • Algeria
      • Egypt
      • Libya
      • Morocco
      • Tunisia
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Mauritania
      • Niger
  • Asia-temperate
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Gulf States
      • Kuwait
      • Oman
      • Saudi Arabia
      • Yemen
    • Western Asia
      • Iraq
      • Palestine
      • Sinai

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000395859
Tropicos 6303453
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:156169-1
The Plant List kew-2410020
Open Tree Of Life 878074
NCBI Taxonomy 1081590
IPNI 156169-1
iNaturalist 489771
GBIF 7268221
EPPO PCYRE
EOL 5208730
Wikipedia Polycarpaea_repens

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Plant Species as Potential Forage for Honey Bees in the Al-Baha Mountain Region in Southwestern Saudi Arabia Al-Ghamdi AA, Al-Sagheer NA Plants (Basel) 22-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10058344
doi:10.3390/plants12061402
PMID:36987090
Soils with more clay and dense vegetation were rich in soil carbon along Wadi Al-Sharaea, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Osman HE, Elaidarous AA, El-Morsy MH, Eid EM, Keshta AE Heliyon 16-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9938500
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e12988
PMID:36820175
Impacts of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Vegetation Dynamics: A Case Study of Wadi Hagul, Eastern Desert, Egypt Bedair R, Ibrahim AA, Alyamani AA, Aloufi S, Ramadan S Plants (Basel) 14-Sep-2021
PMCID:PMC8466335
doi:10.3390/plants10091906
PMID:34579436
The thionin family of antimicrobial peptides Höng K, Austerlitz T, Bohlmann T, Bohlmann H PLoS One 14-Jul-2021
PMCID:PMC8279376
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0254549
PMID:34260649
Ecology of inland sand dunes “nafuds” as a hyper-arid habitat, Saudi Arabia: Floristic and plant associations diversity El-Sheikh MA, Thomas J, Arif IA, El-Sheikh HM Saudi J Biol Sci 08-Dec-2020
PMCID:PMC7938194
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.12.002
PMID:33732034
A Review of C4 Plants in Southwest Asia: An Ecological, Geographical and Taxonomical Analysis of a Region With High Diversity of C4 Eudicots Rudov A, Mashkour M, Djamali M, Akhani H Front Plant Sci 05-Nov-2020
PMCID:PMC7694577
doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.546518
PMID:33304357
Interspecific variations in the habitats of Reichardia tingitana (L.) Roth leading to changes in its bioactive constituents and allelopathic activity Abd-ElGawad AM, El-Amier YA, Assaeed AM, Al-Rowaily SL Saudi J Biol Sci 25-Nov-2019
PMCID:PMC6933205
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2019.11.015
PMID:31889875
Vanishing Knowledge of Plant Species in the Wadi Allaqi Desert Area of Egypt Kandal HA, Yacoub HA, Gerkema MP, Swart JA Hum Ecol Interdiscip J 19-May-2016
PMCID:PMC5011154
doi:10.1007/s10745-016-9826-9
PMID:27642218
Effects of open grazing and livestock exclusion on floristic composition and diversity in natural ecosystem of Western Saudi Arabia Al-Rowaily SL, El-Bana MI, Al-Bakre DA, Assaeed AM, Hegazy AK, Ali MB Saudi J Biol Sci 09-May-2015
PMCID:PMC4486470
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.04.012
PMID:26150749
Vegetation analysis of Wadi Al-Jufair, a hyper-arid region in Najd, Saudi Arabia Alatar A, El-Sheikh MA, Thomas J Saudi J Biol Sci 17-May-2012
PMCID:PMC3730721
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2012.04.003
PMID:23961197
Diversity of bacteria nesting the plant cover of north Sinai deserts, Egypt Hanna AL, Youssef HH, Amer WM, Monib M, Fayez M, Hegazi NA J Adv Res 09-Jan-2012
PMCID:PMC4195458
doi:10.1016/j.jare.2011.11.003
PMID:25685397

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