Family | THYMELAEACEAE |
Genus species | Daphne mucronata Royle |
Bibliography | Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts.: 322 (1836) |
Native Range | se. Turkey to w. Himalaya and Arabian Peninsula |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | grassland and thickets |
Description | branchlets thin, red, densely leafy, leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous, sessile, acute, flowers 5-7, shortly pedicellate, in capitate corymb, drupe orange |
Size | 30-70cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, rich, drained soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible cuttings in late summer; layering in spring |
Synonyms | Daphne acuminata Boiss. & Hohen. ex Stocks Daphne acuminata var. kochii Meisn. Daphne angustifolia K.Koch Daphne angustifolia var. affghanica (Meisn.) Keissl. Daphne angustifolia var. mucronata (Royle) Keissl. Daphne argentea E.D.Clarke Daphne cachemireana Meisn. Daphne coriacea Royle Daphne mucronata var. affghanica Meisn. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 33 Caucasus (TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan, IRN Iran, IRQ Iraq, TUR Turkey) 35 Arabian Peninsula (OMA Oman, SAU Saudi Arabia) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |