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Sarcopoterium is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family. The genus is sometimes considered synonymous to Poterium. The sole species within this genus, Sarcopoterium spinosum, is common to the southeast Mediterranean region and the Middle East. In English it is known as the prickly, spiny, or thorny burnet It is a perennial bush with small flowers in inflorescence. Sarcopoterium spinosum flowers in February to April and its fruits mature in autumn, then fall to earth to germinate with the rain water.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderRosales
  5. FamilyRosaceae
Native toAlbania, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Sardegna, Sicilia
Observations recorded12,754

Sarcopoterium es un género monotípico de planta perteneciente a la familia de las rosáceas. Su única especie: Sarcopoterium spinosum, es originaria de la cuenca del Mediterráneo. Índice 1 Descripción 2 Hábitat 3 Distribución 4 Taxonomía 5 Referencias 6 Enlaces externos Descripción La pimpinela espinosa (Sarcopoterium spinosum) es un arbusto muy intrincado, de 30-60 cm de altura, lanoso. Con ramas laterales sin hojas, terminadas en una doble espina de 5-10 mm de largo. Las hojas son alternas, finas, más anchas en el ápice, imparipinnadas, con 9-5 pares de folíolos. Foliolos de 4-6 mm de largo, por arriba más o menos tridentados, con el borde del limbo enrollado hacia abajo, cara superior glabra, cara inferior algo lanosa. Flores muy pequeñas, diclinas en espigas cortas o cabezuelas, las superiores femeninas y las inferiores masculinas. Perianto dividido en 4 partes, caliciforme, verde. 10-30 estambres. Ovarios con 2 estigmas plumosos. Frutos rojos, abayados. Hábitat Habita en zonas secas y abiertas.[1]​ Distribución Mediterráneo central y oriental desde Cerdeña y el sur de Italia hacia el este. Taxonomía Sarcopoterium spinosum fue descrita por Edouard Spach y publicado en Annales de

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
4
With media
4
Family
Rosaceae
Collections
SD, O
Recorded in
Greece

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Sarcopoterium is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family. The genus is sometimes considered synonymous to Poterium. The sole species within this genus, Sarcopoterium spinosum, is common to the southeast Mediterranean region and the Middle East. In English it is known as the prickly, spiny, or thorny burnet It is a perennial bush with small flowers in inflorescence. Sarcopoterium spinosum flowers in February to April and its fruits mature in autumn, then fall to earth to germinate with the rain water.

Sarcopoterium spinosum has spines. In the summer (high temperatures) it is dry and appears dead.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sarcopoterium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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