Bosea cypria
Bosea cypria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Core eudicots |
Family: | Amaranthaceae |
Genus: | Bosea |
Species: | B. cypria |
Binomial name | |
Bosea cypria Boiss. ex Hook.f. | |
Bosea cypria Much branched, evergreen shrub, 1-2 m high, erect, suberect, or hanging on walls, cliffs or trees, with hairless angular shoots. Leaves, opposite, simple, entire-+ elliptical, 2-6 x (1-2-3) cm, hairless, petiolate, dark green, occasionally red green. Flowers in branched spikes, actionomorphic, hermaphrodite or unisexual 5-merous, very small, green brown. Fruit a globose red berry. Flowers from April to July.
Habitat
Rocky limestone banks, cliffs, old walls or gulleys, from sea level to 600 m.
Distribution
Endemic to Cyprus. Akamas (Avakas, Kouphes etc.), Kritou Terra, Peyia, Lysos, Theletra, Mesoyi, Kato Paphos, Pakhyammos, Kourio, the Episkopi Forest, Potamos, Liopetriou, Protraras, Dhiorious, Pendataktylos, Phizokarpaso.
Cultivation
It has mostly been planted in hedges in several parts of the island as in Nicosia, Evrykhou, Katydata, Skouriotissa etc.
References
- The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2
External links
- http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo281484.htm
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildlifetravel/8200940920/
- http://www.natureofcyprus.org/detailinfo.aspx?cid=5&recid=205&rowid=51&rowcount=1&pageindex=10&pagesize=5
- http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2680382
- http://www.wsl.ch/dendro/xylemdb/index.php?TEXTID=764&MOD=1
- http://www.herbaryum.neu.edu.tr/content/resimler/Amaranthaceae/Bosea cypria.JPG