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Retama raetam (Forssk.)Webb

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HIGHER TAXON: Genisteae

GENUS: Retama Raf.

Retama raetam (Forssk.)Webb [Preferred name]
    Genista raetam Forssk. {Synonym}
    Retama duriaei (Spach)Webb {Synonym}
    Retama raetum (Forssk.)Webb {Orthographic variant}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  White Broom [2193]; White Weeping Broom [1921]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Algeria (N) [454]; Egypt (N) [454]; Libya (N) [454]; Morocco (N) [454]; Tunisia (N) [454]; Western Sahara (N) [238]
  Australasia
Australia (I) [1880];
  Europe
Great Britain (I) [2193]; Sicilia (N) [454]
  Middle East
Israel-Jordan (N) [454]; Lebanon-Syria (N) [454]; Saudi Arabia (N) [1859, 1900]; Sinai (N) [454]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Mediterranean grasslands. [360];
    Sahara regional transition zone: desert. [360];
    Sahara regional transition zone; grasslands [526];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [360, 368, 526, 754, 1859, 1900, 1921, 2050] ; Illustration [360, 368, 526, 1859, 1921, 2050]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1991/1993 Cristofolini G & Feoli L, 2001-06 Cristofolini G ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Bisby FA

  
USES:
  Environmental [2193]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

238.

  Guinea, E., 1948
    Anales Jard.Bot.Madrid 8:357-431. Cat.Pl.Sahara espanol

360.

  Quezel, P. & Santa, S., 1962
    Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie et des regions desertiq.merid.1

368.

  Jafri, S.M.N., 1980
    Fabaceae.In:Flora of Libya,Pt.86.Jaffri & El Gadi

454.

  Greuter, W. et al. (Eds.), 1989
    Med-Checklist Vol.4 (published)

526.

  Maire, R. (Quezel, P., Ed.), 1987
    Flore de l'Afrique du Nord,Vol.16.Dicots.Leguminosae,part.

754.

  Heywood, V.H. & Ball, P.W., 1968
    Leguminosae.In:Flora Europaea Vol.2.ed.Tutin,T.G.et al.

1859.

  Collenette, 1985
    Flowers of Saudi Arabia

1880.

  Hnatiuk, R.J., 1990
    Census Australian Vasc. Plants, Bureau Fl. & Fauna, Canberra

1900.

  Migahid, A.M., 1978
    Flora of Saudi Arabia. Ed.2, Vol.1

1921.

  Jessop, J. & Toelken, H.R.(Eds.), 1986
    Flora of South Australia, Part 2.

2050.

  Zohary, M., 1972
    Flora of Palestina Part 2.

2193.

  Chittenden, F.J., 1951
    The RHS Dictionary of Gardening II. Oxford Univ.Press

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