Forsskaolea

Taxobox


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Rosales
familia = Urticaceae
genus = "Forsskaolea"
genus_authority = L.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.
synonyms = "Chamaedryfolia" Dill.cite web
url = http://ww2.bgbm.org/_EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=47342&PTRefFk=500000
title = Details for: "Forsskaolea"
accessdate = 2008-04-24
author = Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
authorlink = Botanical Garden in Berlin
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work = Euro+Med PlantBase
publisher = Freie Universität Berlin ] "Caidbeja" Forssk.cite web
author =Flora of Pakistan
url =http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=112946
authorlink =Flora of North America
title = "Forsskaolea" Linn.
accessdate = 2008-04-24 ] "Forsskalea"cite web
url = http://ww2.bgbm.org/_EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=35120&PTRefFk=500000
title = Details for: "Forsskalea"
accessdate = 2008-04-24
author = Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
authorlink = Botanical Garden in Berlin
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work = Euro+Med PlantBase
publisher = Freie Universität Berlin
ref = I am pretty sure that this is a typographic error that starts here. ]

"Forsskaolea" is a small genus of 6 species of perennial herbs in the nettle family with non-stinging hairs and dot-like concretions of mineral matter on their green parts.

Description

;Leaves: The leaves have three ribs, are alternate, scalloped and with toothlike projections along the edges. ;Flowers: Budding flowers are flat-topped clusters and bisexual and from the base stem, enclosed in bell shaped, densely hairy, rings of 3-6 bracts. Flowers are minute and unisexual with the female surrounded by a ring of male flowers. Male flowers have 3-5 lobed calyx and the females have none. Solitary stamen, upright wooly ovaries with no style.;Seeds: Achenes oval to elliptical, flattened, densely hairy and enveloped in wooly bracts.

Distribution

"Forsskaolea" have found homes in the southern parts of the Palearctic from the Canary Isles and southeast Spain then eastwards to Pakistan and western India.

elected Species

*"Forsskaolea angustifolia" Retz.
*"Forsskaolea candida" L.f.
*"Forsskaolea hereroensis" Schinz
*"Forsskaolea procridifolia" Webb
*"Forsskaolea tenacissima" L.
*"Forsskaolea viridis" Ehrenb. ex Webbcite web
url = http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/genre.php?langue=an&id=4028
title = "Forsskaolea L."
accessdate = 2008-04-24
format = HTML
work = African Plants Database
publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. ]

References

External links

*cite web
url = http://www.flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?action=browse&group=1439
title = Genus "Forsskaolea"
accessdate = 2008-04-24
author = Flora of Israel Online
authorlink = Hebrew University of Jerusalem
format = HTML
work = Hebrew University of Jerusalem
*cite web
url = http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/344766
title = Forsskaolea
accessdate = 2008-04-24
author = UniProt
authorlink = UniProt
format = HTML
*cite web
url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/html/genus.pl?4731
title = Genus: "Forsskaolea" L.
accessdate = 2008-04-24
author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
authorlink = Germplasm Resources Information Network
date = 1996-09-17
format = HTML
work = Taxonomy for Plants
publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland
*cite web
url = http://www.aluka.org/action/showCompilationPage?doi=10.5555%2FAL.AP.COMPILATION.PLANT-NAME-GENUS.FORSSKAOLEA
title = Forsskaolea [family URTICACEAE]
accessdate = 2008-04-24
author = Aluka
authorlink = Aluka
format = HTML
work = African Plants
doi = 10.5555%2FAL.AP.COMPILATION.PLANT-NAME-GENUS.FORSSKAOLEA
publisher = Ithaka Harbors, Inc