Family | ZYGOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Zygophyllum molle (Delile) Christenh. & Byng |
Bibliography | Global Fl. 4: 93 (2018) |
Native Range | Egypt to Syria and Saudi Arabia |
Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
Description | adpressed lanate, erect, densely leafy, spines hirsute, leaves ternate, petiolate, leaflets ovate, mucronate, flowers solitary, large, sepals ovate, hirsute |
Size | 20-30cm |
Color | pink-purple |
Bloom | spring |
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Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C cuttings in spring |
Synonyms | Fagonia boveana (Hadidi) El Karemy & El Naggar Fagonia cistoides Delile ex T.Anderson Fagonia grandiflora Boiss. Fagonia grandiflora var. sparseglandulosa Bornm. Fagonia mollis Delile Fagonia mollis var. boveana Hadidi Fagonia mollis var. densiglandulosa Hadidi Fagonia mollis var. grandiflora (Boiss.) Post Fagonia mollis var. hispida Zohary Fagonia tristis Sickenb. Fagonia tristis var. boveana Hadidi |
Territory | 2 Africa 20 Northern Africa (EGY Egypt) 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (LBS Lebanon-Syria, PAL Palestine, SIN Sinai) 35 Arabian Peninsula (SAU Saudi Arabia) |