| Calligonum junceum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Polygonaceae |
| Genus: | Calligonum |
| Species: | C. junceum |
| Binomial name | |
| Calligonum junceum | |
Calligonum junceum is a small shrub native to Central Asia and China, including the Kyzylkum Desert. [1] [2] It has been introduced to the Sahara. It is long fruiting.
Teucrium is a cosmopolitan genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, commonly known as germanders. Plants in this genus are perennial herbs or shrubs, with branches that are more or less square in cross-section, leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and flowers arranged in thyrses, the corolla with mostly white to cream-coloured, lobed petals.
Spartium junceum, known as Spanish broom, rush broom, or weaver's broom, it is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and the sole species in the genus Spartium. It is closely related to the other brooms.
Spanish broom may refer to:
Calligonum polygonoides, locally known as phog, is a small shrub found in Thar desert areas, usually 4 feet to 6 feet high but occasionally may reach even 10 feet in height with a girth of 1 to 2 ft. This plant is referred to as orta in old Arabic poetry. It commonly grows on dry sandy soils and on sand dunes. It is very hardy and being capable of growing under adverse conditions of soil and moisture. It is frost hardy. It produces root suckers and is easily propagated by cutting and layering.
Phog can refer to:
The Turkestan ground jay, grey ground jay or Pander's ground-jay is a species of bird in the crow and jay family, Corvidae. It is found in central Asia, particularly Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. More specifically, they tend to be found in Astragalus, Calligonum and southern Salsola vegetation zones. It is closely related to the Iranian ground jay. Its natural habitat is sandy desert with low shrub cover. It also forages around human settlements and roads.
Calligonum is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with about 80 species across the Mediterranean Sea region, Asia and North America.
The North Saharan steppe and woodlands is a desert ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, that forms the northern edge of the Sahara. It extends east and west across Northern Africa, south of the Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe ecoregion of the Maghreb and Cyrenaica, which is part of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome. Winter rains sustain shrublands and dry woodlands that form an ecotone between the Mediterranean climate regions to the north and the hyper-arid Sahara Desert ecoregion to the south.
Coleophora calligoni is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in southern Russia, Turkestan and Uzbekistan.
Ascalenia viviparella is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine and southern Russia.
Calycobathra calligoni is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. The moth is found in south-eastern part of European Russia, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. The wingspan is 10–12 mm. There are two generations per year with adults on wing year round. Overwintering takes place in rodent nests.
Jebil is a national park in Tunisia situated within the Sahara desert. Covering an area of 150,000 hectares, it is the country's second-largest national park, after Senghar-Jebbes National Park. Though large, it is relatively new having been designated a national park in 1994. Until Senghar-Jebbes was declared, it was the only national park within the Sahara desert proper.
Thinopyrum junceum, commonly named sand couch-grass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is found in Europe and temperate Asia, and grows from rhizomes. They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Individuals can grow to 52 cm tall.
Calligonum bakuense is a species of Calligonum shrub, endemic to Azerbaijan. It has pinkish flowers and grows on coastal sands along the Caspian shore, reaching 1.5 m in height. The habitat is limited to the Absheron Peninsula. The specific epithet bakuense is derived from Baku.
The Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert ecoregion covers the desert coastal plain of the northwest Persian Gulf, that is, on the northeast Arabian Peninsula, from Kuwait in the north to a small coastal sector in the United Arab Emirates to the southeast.
Psoralidium junceum is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, commonly known as rush lemonweed, or rush scurfpea. It is native to southwestern North America where it is only known from Arizona and Utah. It grows on sand dunes, among shrubs on semi-stabilized sands, on mudflats encrusted with salt and on bare rocky slopes.
Teucrium junceum is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a scrambling, openly-branched shrub, with small leaves, white flowers and orange to red fruit.
Hibbertia juncea is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is a small shrub with leaves reduced to minute scales, and white to cream-coloured or pink flowers arranged in leaf axils with seven to ten stamens.
Calligonum comosum, the fire bush, arta or abal, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae.
Lythrum junceum is a species of perennial herb in the family Lythraceae native to the Mediterranean Basin, West Asia and Macaronesia. They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. They are associated with freshwater habitat. Individuals can grow to 0.2 m.
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