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Cornulaca monacantha

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Name

Identification
Cornulaca monacantha Delile [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Loutfy Boulos, Cornulaca arabica Botsch. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cornulaca arabica
  • Cornulaca monacantha
Common name
  • sri (A. Chev.) (MALI, TUBU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • had (Grail) (NIGER, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • had (RM) tahara (JMD) tasra (JMD) tazera (JMD) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • had (JMD) hamad (JMD) (MALI, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for CORNULACA monacantha Del. [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 76, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CORNULACA monacantha Del. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Fl. Égypte, 206, t. 22. —Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 218; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 186; Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 34; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 984; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 89, fig. 44, A-D.
Information
A much-branched rigid low undershrub. Leaves 1/6– 1/4 in. long, lanceolate, curved, ending in a spine, the base ovate, many distant; in age the spine often disappears, and the base of the leaf on the old branches becomes a cushion. Flowers clustered, buried in wool. Perianth in flower 1/8 in. long; the spathulate lobes elongate in fruit, and one at least usually becomes spinescent.
Range
Also in North Africa and Western Asia
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Dongola, Ehrenberg.North Central Sahara Desert in the Teda country, south of Tedjerri, Vogel!

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