Family | EPHEDRACEAE |
Genus species | Ephedra distachya L. |
Synonyms | Ephedra clusii Dufour |
Ephedra dubia Regel | |
Ephedra minor Host | |
Habitat | sands |
Altitude | 100-900m |
Description | branchlets rigid, dark green, with russet medulla, internodes 15-50mm long, male flowers 8-16 in spike, female flowers in pairs, fruit spherical, 6-7 mm long |
Size | 25-50cm |
Color | yellowish |
Bloom | early summer |
Ca | |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring layering in spring |
Territory |
Europe
Middle Europe (Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (Corse , France , Sardegna , Spain ) Southeastern Europe (Albania , Bulgaria , Greece , Italy , Romania , Sicilia , Turkey-in-Europe , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (Krym , East European Russia , South European Russia , Ukraine ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , West Siberia ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan , Turkmenistan ) Caucasus (North Caucasus , Transcaucasus ) Western Asia (Turkey) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | EPHEDRACEAE
distachya helvetica (C.A.Mey.) Asch. & Graebn., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. [Ascerson & Graebner] 1: 260 (1897)
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