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Fagonia latifolia

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Identification
Fagonia isotricha Murb. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by Beier, B.-A., Fagonia latifolia Delile [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Fagonia glutinosa
  • Fagonia albiflora
  • Fagonia latifolia
  • Fagonia isotricha
  • Fagonia virens
  • Fagonia viscida
  • Fagonia capensis
  • Fagonia alba

Flora

Entry for FAGONIA cretica Linn. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 282, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
FAGONIA cretica Linn. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 704.
FAGONIA arabica Linn. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 704.
FAGONIA glutinosa Delile [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], Fl. Ægypt. 86. t. 28.
FAGONIA latifolia Delile [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], Fl. Ægypt. 86. t. 28.
FAGONIA parviflora Boiss. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], Diag. Pl. Or. Ser. i. fasc. viii. 121–124.
FAGONIA Kahirana Boiss. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], Diag. Pl. Or. Ser. i. fasc. viii. 121–124.
FAGONIA thebaica Boiss. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], Diag. Pl. Or. Ser. i. fasc. viii. 121–124.
FAGONIA armata R. Br. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], in Salt, Abyss. App. 64.
Information
An erect or ascending, diffuse or densely-branched spinose annual, from a few inches to a foot or more in height, glandular-puberulous, scabrid or glabrescent. Leaves 1–3-foliolate; leaflets sessile or subsessile, oval lanceolate or oblanceolate, mucronate, often rather fleshy, puberulous or glabrate; petiole various, often very short. Stipular spines slender, straight, shorter or longer than the leaves. Flowers rose or lilac, “fragrant.” Peduncles at length deflexed. Fruit apiculate, pubescent or glabrous.
Range
Occurs on both shores of the Mediterranean, in S. extratropical Africa, throughout the warmer dry parts of Asia, and again in Western N. and S. America.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Ehrenberg, Speke and Grant! and others;Abyssinia Nile Land Salt! Schimper!Nile Land Red Sea, Nimmo!North Central Aghadem, Dr. Oudney! E. Vogel!
Notes
For more extended synonymy of this variable plant, see Anderson in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. i. 11. The more important forms, recorded from Nubia or adjacent provinces, of this variable species, and which by many botanists are regarded as of specific rank, are (the characters briefly given in abstract from M. Boissier's ‘Flora Orientalis,’ i. 904–908):— a. Glabrous, green. Extremities sulcate. Spines shorter than petiole. Leaflets 3, linear-lanceolate, acute. —(F. cretica, Linn.) b. Erect, green, shortly glandular. Extremities striate. Spines exceeding the acute linear leaves. —(F. arabica, Linn.) c. Green, glabrous; twigs striate. Upper spines equalling the fleshy 1–3-foliolate leaves. Leaflets oblong-cylindrical, obtuse, mucronate. —(F. thebaica, Boiss.) d. Glabrous, except the minutely mealy, terete, striate extremities. Spines exceeding the 1-foliolate leaves. Leaflets linear-lanceolate. —(F. parviflora, Boiss.) e. Viscid with sessile glands. Spines short. Leaflets minute, obovate to oblanceolate, obtuse or mucronate. —(F. glutinosa, Delile.) f. Diffuse, glandular-pilose. Spines short. Leaflets 1–3; median rotundate-cuneate. —(F. latifolia, Delile.)

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