Family | TAMARICACEAE |
Genus species | Reaumuria hirtella Jaub. & Spach |
Bibliography | Ill. Pl. Orient. 3: 54 (1848) |
Native Range | Libya to Arabian Peninsula |
Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
Description | minutely hirsute, erect, leaf subterete, on base cordate, oblong-linear, obtuse, crowded in axils of branchlets, inflorescence racemose-paniculate |
Size | 20-50cm |
Color | whitish |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 2 Africa 20 Northern Africa (EGY Egypt, LBY Libya) 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (LBS Lebanon-Syria, PAL Palestine, SIN Sinai) 35 Arabian Peninsula (SAU Saudi Arabia) |