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Southeastern Iberian Shrubs And Woodlands
The Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion in southwestern Europe. It lies southwestern coastal Spain, along the Mediterranean Sea. Geography The ecoregion covers coastal low plains, hills, and badlands close to Spain's southeastern coast. The ecoregion's geology is complex, made up mostly of sedimentary rocks like marl, gypsum, limestone, conglomerate, sandstone and consolidated dunes, together with coastal outcrops of volcanic rock like Cabo de Gata. The region is geologically active, with faults, earthquakes, recently uplifted areas. The seashore includes both coastal dunes and lagoons and areas of rocky coast. The cities of Almería and Cartagena are in the ecoregion. Climate The ecoregion has a Mediterranean climate, with rainfall mostly in the winter months, and a yearly summer drought. The ecoregion is hotter and drier than neighboring ecoregions, and known as 'thermo-Mediterranean'. Annual rainfall ranges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Arborea
''Erica arborea'', the tree heath or tree heather, is a species of flowering plant (angiosperms) in the heather family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa. It is also cultivated as an ornamental. The wood, known as briar root ( French: bruyère, Catalan: bruc, Portuguese: betouro, Spanish: brezo), is extremely hard and heat-resistant, and is used for making smoking pipes. Leaf fossils attributed to this species were described for the Mio-Pleistocene deposit of São Jorge in Madeira Island. Description ''Erica arborea'' is an upright evergreen shrub or small tree with a typical height in the wild of some , especially in Africa, but more typically in gardens. It bears dark green needle-like leaves and numerous small honey-scented bell-shaped white flowers. It is a calcifuge, preferring acid soil in an open sunny situation. Distribution There are disjunct populations in Africa including the Ethiopian Highlands, the mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabo De Gata
Cabo de Gata is a cape located in Níjar, Almería in the south of Spain, one of the biggest capes. It is the driest place in the Iberian Peninsula (150-170 mm average precipitation, being the lowest 52 mm in 1981). However, the area that it occupies is not considered a desert, even though there is one nearby: the Tabernas Desert, located 30 km in a northwest direction. The lowest temperature registered in Cabo de Gata was 0.1 °C. San José, Las Negras, Agua Amarga, Isleta del Moro, Rodalquilar, San Miguel, Almadraba de Moteleva, Fernán Pérez, Las Hortichuelas, Pozo de los Frailes, Los Escullos, Níjar and Carboneras are towns found in Cabo de Gata. The lighthouse is a famous landmark. On 26 March 2008 it was declared Parque Natural. References External links * {{commons-inline Geography of the Province of Almería Gata Davionte Ganter, known professionally as GaTa, is an American rapper and actor known for his role in the FXX TV series ''Dave'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genista Ramosissima
Genista is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, native to open habitats such as moorland and pasture in Europe and western Asia. They include species commonly called broom, though the term may also refer to other genera, including ''Cytisus'' and ''Chamaecytisus''. Brooms in other genera are sometimes considered synonymous with ''Genista'': ''Echinospartum'', ''Retama'', ''Spartium'', ''Stauracanthus'', and ''Ulex''. Description They are mainly deciduous shrubs and trees, often with brush-like foliage, often spiny to deter grazing, and masses of small, pea-like yellow blooms which are sometimes fragrant. Many of the species have flowers that open explosively when alighted on by an insect, the style flying through the upper seam of the keel and striking the underside of the insect, followed by a shower of pollen that coats the insect. The name of the Plantagenet royal line, which reigned in England from 1154 to 1485, is derived from this genus, being a dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ephedra Fragilis
''Ephedra fragilis'', commonly named the joint pine, is a species of ''Ephedra (genus), Ephedra'' that is native to the western Mediterranean region of southern Europe and Northern Africa, and from Madeira and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic. Its habitats are rocky hills and stone walls, where it grows to 2m tall. Taxonomy The plant was originally described by René Louiche Desfontaines in 1799 and placed in section (botany), section ''Pseudobaccatae'' (=sect. ''Ephedra sect. Ephedra''), "tribe" ''Scandentes'' by Otto Stapf (botanist), Otto Stapf in 1889. In 1996 Robert A. Price classified ''E. fragilis'' in section ''Ephedra'' without recognizing a tribe.Price, R. A. (1996). Systematics of the Gnetales: A review of morphological and molecular evidence. ''International Journal of Plant Sciences'', 157(6): S40-S49. ;Subspecies #''Ephedra fragilis'' subsp. ''cossonii'' (Stapf) Maire - Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara #''Ephedra fragilis'' subsp. ''fragilis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cistus Libanotis
''Cistus libanotis'' is a shrubby species of flowering plant in the family Cistaceae, with white flowers. It has been confused with ''Cistus clusii'', which it resembles, resulting in some uncertainty in its distribution. It is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula (in southern Portugal and southwestern Spain). Description ''Cistus libanotis'' is a prostrate or less often erect shrub, up to tall. It leaves are dark green, long and thin in shape, usually long by wide and with turned under (revolute) margins. The upper surfaces of the leaves have only a few stellate hairs, particularly on the margins and the veins; the lower surfaces have a conspicuous vein and two dense bands of short stellate hairs. The flowers are arranged in cymes or whorls, the top group forming an umbel of three or four flowers. Each flower has three striped reddish sepals, long by wide, and five white petals with a yellow spot at the base, long by wide. The stamens are unequal in length, longer than the pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maytenus Senegalensis
''Maytenus'' ''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607 is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. Members of the genus are distributed throughout Central and South America, Southeast Asia, Micronesia and Australasia, the Indian Ocean and Africa. They grow in a very wide variety of climates, from tropical to subpolar. The traditional circumscription of ''Maytenus'' is paraphyletic, so many species have been transferred to ''Denhamia'', ''Gymnosporia'', ''Monteverdia'', and ''Tricerma''. Selected species * ''Maytenus abbottii'' A.E.van Wyk * ''Maytenus acuminata'' (L.f.) Loes. * ''Maytenus boaria'' Molina (type species) * ''Maytenus buxifolia'' (A.Rich.) Griseb. (West Indies) * ''Maytenus canariensis'' (Loes.) G. Kunkel & Sunding * ''Maytenus curtissii'' (King) Ding Hou * ''Maytenus hookeri'' Loes. * ''Maytenus jamesonii'' Briq. * ''Maytenus lucidus'' * ''Maytenus magellanica'' ( Lam.) Hook.f. * ''Maytenus obtusifolia'' * '' Maytenus octogona'' * '' Maytenus o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosmarinus Eriocalyx
''Salvia jordanii'' is a species of ''Salvia ''Salvia'' () is the largest genus of plants in the sage family Lamiaceae, with nearly 1000 species of shrubs, herbaceous plant, herbaceous perennial plant, perennials, and annual plant, annuals. Within the Lamiaceae, ''Salvia'' is part of the ...'' from Spain, Morocco, Algeria, and Libya. It was formerly in a much smaller genus '' Rosmarinus'', but was moved into ''Salvia'' based on DNA evidence. References External links * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q9070818 Flora of Morocco Flora of Spain Flora of Algeria Flora of Libya jordanii Plants described in 1866 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calicotome Intermedia . It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It may be synonymous with '' Cytisus''. All species of the genus are thorny shrubs. The ancient Greeks believed that tyrants in Hades were punished by being beaten with the thorny calycotomes.
''Calicotome'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenc ... Species ''Calicotome'' comprises the following species:References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Periploca Angustifolia
''Periploca laevigata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to the Canary Islands,Manuel Arechavaleta, S. Rodríguez, Nieves Zurita, A. García (Hrsg.): Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias. Hongos, plantas y animales terrestres' (''List of Forest Species of the Canary Islands''). 2009. Gobierno de Canarias, p. 148 the Savage Islands and Cape Verde.Oromí, Martín, Zurita & Cabrera, 2005 : Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: Hongos, Plantas y Animales Terrestres.' Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, p. 46 The species was described by William Aiton and was published in ''Hortus Kewensis'' in 1789. Its Spanish names are or . "Cornicabra" means goat horn. Subspecies *''Periploca laevigata subsp. chevalieri'' (Browicz) G. Kunkel - found in Cape Verde Description The plant is a shrub and can grow up to 2 metres. Its leaves are lanceolate or. Its stems grow up to 15 cm and is ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Withania Frutescens
''Withania'' is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, with 23 species that are native to parts of North Africa, western Asia, south Asia, southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands. Two of the species, ''W. somnifera'' (ashwagandha) and ''W. coagulans'' (ashutosh booti), are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their medicinal uses. Etymology ''Withania'' is thought to have been named in honour of Henry Witham, a British geologist and writer on fossil botany beginning in 1830. Selected species * ''Withania adpressa'' Cors. * '' Withania adunensis'' Vierh. * ''Withania begoniifolia'' (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza * ''Withania chevalieri'' A.E.Goncalves * ''Withania coagulans'' (Stocks) Dunal — Ashutosh booti, Indian rennet, ''panirband'', vegetable rennet * ''Withania frutescens'' (L.) Pauquy * ''Withania japonica'' (Franch. & Sav.) Hunz. * ''Withania qaraitica'' A.G.Mill. & Biagi * ''Withania reichenbachii'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziziphus Lotus
''Ziziphus'' is a genus of about 40 species of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, distributed in the warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of the world. The leaves are alternate, entire, with three prominent basal veins, and long; some species are deciduous, others evergreen. The flowers are small, inconspicuous yellow-green. The fruit is an edible drupe, yellow-brown, red, or black, globose or oblong, long, often very sweet and sugary, reminiscent of a date in texture and flavour. Etymology The generic name is derived via classical Latin from Hellenistic Greek, where it is presumed to have been borrowed from another language, perhaps from ''zizfum'' or ''zizafun'', the Persian word for '' Z. lotus''. Ecology ''Ziziphus'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including '' Bucculatrix zizyphella'', which feeds exclusively on the genus, and '' Endoclita malabaricus''. Well known species includes ''Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirocco
Sirocco ( ), scirocco, or, rarely, siroc (see below) is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe, especially during the summer season. Names ''Sirocco'' derives from '' šurūq'' (), verbal noun of '' šaraqa'', related to the East, ''aš-šarq''. Various names for this wind in other languages include: * it, scirocco * scn, sciroccu * es, siroco * ca, xaloc * mt, xlokk * oc, siròc or * el, σορόκος, sorókos, or romanized: sirókos * sq, Jugu (south) * hr, jugo, lit=southern, or rarely ''širok'' * lij, sciöco or * Libyan Arabic: , romanized: , which means 'coming from the Qibla' * arz, خمسين, Ḫamsīn, which means 'fifty' ('fifty-day wind') * aeb, شلوق, šlūq, probably from with the same meaning as ; or * ary, شرقي, lit=eastern, šarquiyy, pronounced širguī Development Siroccos arise from warm, dry, tropical air masses that are pulled northward by low- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
