Silene villosa
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Silene villosa is a therophyte and an annual plant of the family Caryophyllaceae and genus Silene. S. villosa is a native of the Mediterranean woodlands and shrub, semi-steppe shrublands, shrub-steppes, deserts and extreme deserts.[1]
S. villosa is a member of a special "flowering desert" community of plants called therophytes; at least one of S. villosa communities include Plantago amplexicaulis and Senecio glaucus. Other annual therophytes include Schouwia thebaica (a Brassicaceae), Citrullus colocynthis and Astragalus vogelii.[2]
[edit] External links
- Silene villosa Forssk. record n° 13240 (HTML). African plants database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica.. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Flora of Israel Online. Silene villosa Forssk. (HTML). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
- ^ Schulze, E -D; Erwin Beck, Klaus Müller-Hohenstein (2005). "Vegetation History", Plant Ecology (HTML), Springer Science+Business Media, 702 pages. ISBN 354020833X. Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
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