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Ephedra fragilis

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Species of seed-bearing shrub

Ephedra fragilis
Ephedra fragilis Algeciras, Spain
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Gnetophyta
Class: Gnetopsida
Order: Ephedrales
Family: Ephedraceae
Genus: Ephedra
Species: E. fragilis
Binomial name
Ephedra fragilis
Desf.
Synonyms
  • Ephedra dissoluta Webb & Berthel.
  • Ephedra fragilis subsp. dissoluta (Webb & Berthel.) Trab
  • Ephedra fragilis subsp. desfontainii Asch. & Graebn
  • Ephedra gibraltarica Boiss.
  • Ephedra wettsteinii Buxb.
  • Ephedra altissima Buch 1828, illegitimate homonym, not Desf. 1799 nor Delile 1813 nor Bové 1834

Ephedra fragilis, commonly named the joint pine, is a species of 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.

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 Pseudobaccatae (=sect. Ephedra sect. Ephedra), "tribe" Scandentes by Otto Stapf in 1889.

In 1996 Robert A. Price classified E. fragilis in section Ephedra without recognizing a tribe.

Subspecies
  1. Ephedra fragilis subsp. cossonii (Stapf) Maire - Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara
  2. Ephedra fragilis subsp. fragilis - Spain, Portugal, Balearic Islands, Sicily, Calabria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Madeira, Canary Islands

Conservation

Ephedra fragilis is a Least Concern species on the IUCN Red List.

References

  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2011). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 3: 1-449. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
  3. Altervista Flora Italiana, Efedra fragile, Ephedra fragilis Desf.
  4. PFAF Plant Database — Ephedra fragilis . accessed 1.10.2013
  5. Price, R. A. (1996). Systematics of the Gnetales: A review of morphological and molecular evidence. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 157(6): S40-S49.
  6. IUCN Red List: Ephedra fragilis (joint pine) . accessed 1.10.2013

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Taxon identifiers
Ephedra fragilis


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