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Internal ID UUID6440002637ef7944014316
Scientific name Pteranthus dichotomus
Authority Forssk.
First published in Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. : lxii (1775)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Pteranthus trigynus Caball. Bol. Real Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 13: 88 (1913)
Pteranthus echinatus Desf. Fl. Atlant. 1: 144 (1798)
Camphorosma pteranthus L. Mant. Pl. 1: 41 (1767)

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic درسة لعجوز
Arabic شويلة ثنائية الفروع

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  • Africa
    • Macaronesia
      • Canary Islands
    • Northern Africa
      • Algeria
      • Egypt
      • Libya
      • Morocco
      • Tunisia
      • Western Sahara
  • Asia-temperate
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Gulf States
      • Kuwait
      • Saudi Arabia
    • Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • Western Asia
      • Cyprus
      • Iran
      • Iraq
      • Palestine
      • Sinai

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000464914
Tropicos 6302949
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:435164-1
The Plant List kew-2529415
Open Tree Of Life 76837
Observations.org 120995
NCBI Taxonomy 325512
IPNI 435164-1
iNaturalist 496069
GBIF 3594086
EPPO QASDI
EOL 2900462
Elurikkus 381128

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Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Shipwrecked on the Rock, or Not Quite: Gypsophytes and Edaphic Islands Mota JF, Martínez-Hernández F, Pérez-García FJ, Mendoza-Fernández AJ, Salmerón-Sánchez E, Merlo ME Plants (Basel) 27-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC11013591
doi:10.3390/plants13070970
PMID:38611499
Facilitation by Haloxylon persicum Shrubs Enhances Density and Richness of Soil Seed Bank of Annual Plants in a Hyper-Arid Ecosystem Gomaa NH, Hegazy AK, Alhaithloul HA Plants (Basel) 10-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10056119
doi:10.3390/plants12061276
PMID:36986963
Facilitation Effects of Haloxylon salicornicum Shrubs on Associated Understory Annuals, and a Modified “Stress-Gradient” Hypothesis for Droughty Times Gomaa NH, Hegazy AK, Latef AA Plants (Basel) 07-Dec-2020
PMCID:PMC7762360
doi:10.3390/plants9121726
PMID:33297465
Antimicrobial Lipids from Plants and Marine Organisms: An Overview of the Current State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects Alves E, Dias M, Lopes D, Almeida A, Domingues MD, Rey F Antibiotics (Basel) 24-Jul-2020
PMCID:PMC7459900
doi:10.3390/antibiotics9080441
PMID:32722192
Checklist of Wadi Hassan flora, Northeastern Badia, Jordan Kherissat F, Al-Esawi D Plant Divers 11-May-2019
PMCID:PMC6702440
doi:10.1016/j.pld.2019.05.001
PMID:31453416
Ecological significance of floristic composition and life forms of Riyadh region, Central Saudi Arabia Al Shaye NA, Masrahi YS, Thomas J Saudi J Biol Sci 17-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6933222
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2019.04.009
PMID:31889814
Threatened Prunus arabica in an ancient volcanic protected area of Saudi Arabia: Floristic diversity and plant associations El-Sheikh MA, Al-Shehri MA, Alfarhan AH, Alatar AA, Rajakrishnan R, Al-Rowaily SL Saudi J Biol Sci 02-Feb-2018
PMCID:PMC6717095
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2018.02.001
PMID:31485172
Floristic diversity and vegetation analysis of Wadi Arar: A typical desert Wadi of the Northern Border region of Saudi Arabia Osman AK, Al-Ghamdi F, Bawadekji A Saudi J Biol Sci 18-Feb-2014
PMCID:PMC4250517
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2014.02.001
PMID:25473364

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