Rhamnus alaternus · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online
Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRosales
- FamilyRhamnaceae
Native toAlbania, Algeria, Baleares, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco
Observations recorded107,540
Common Name: sfaira (Arabic)
via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,239
- With media
- 1,020
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Collections
- IRVC, SD, UCSC, SBBG, MEL, UCR
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Tunisia
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Encyclopedic overview
Rhamnus alaternus is a species of flowering plant in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, known by the common names Italian buckthorn or Mediterranean buckthorn. It is a hardy medium-sized evergreen shrub with fragrant flowers.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhamnus alaternus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.