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Calligonum
Sign in to saveCalligonum is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with about 41 species native to Northern Africa, Western, South, and Central Asia, and central China.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyPolygonaceae
Pterococcus é um género botânico pertencente à família Euphorbiaceae.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 61
- With media
- 62
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Collections
- MICH, RSA, BRIT, NY, MO, MNHN
- Recorded in
- China, Ussr, Tunisia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran
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Encyclopedic overview
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Calligonum is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with about 41 species native to Northern Africa, Western, South, and Central Asia, and central China.
== Description == Plants of the genus Calligonum are shrubs, diffusely but irregularly branched, with flexuous woody branches. Leaves are simple, opposite, nearly sessile, linear or scale-like, sometimes absent or very small, linear or filiform, distinct or united with short membranous ochreae. Flowers are bisexual, solitary or in loose axillary inflorescences. Flowers have persistent, 5-parted perianths not accrescent in fruit, and 10-18 stamens with filaments connate at the base. The ovary is tetragonous.
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