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Zygophyllum desertorum

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Name

Identification
Zygophyllum coccineum L. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Zygophyllum desertorum Forssk. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by Hepper,F.N., 1987
Related name
  • Zygophyllum coccineum
  • Zygophyllum desertorum

Flora

Entry for ZYGOPHYLLUM coccineum 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
ZYGOPHYLLUM coccineum Linn. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 706.
ZYGOPHYLLUM desertorum Forsk. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], Fl. Ægypt. 87.
ZYGOPHYLLUM propinquum Decaisne [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. iii. 283 (fide Boiss. Fl. Orient. i. 915).
Information
Decumbent shrub, similar in habit to Z. album, wholly glabrous. Leaves diphyllous, fleshy; leaflets clavate or cylindric-clavate to subobovoid, usually 2–3 lines long on fleshy petioles of 1/4– 1/2 in. Peduncles 1/3– 1/2 in. Structure of flowers similar to that of Z. album; the staminal scales entire or denticulate; the petals somewhat apiculate. Fruit glabrous, clavate-prismatic, acutely 5-angled; apex retuse, 3–5 lines long.
Range
Egypt and Arabia, eastward to Scinde.
Distribution
Nile Land Soturba hills, Nubia, Schweinfurth!
Notes
—The flowers are said to be either white or rose.

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