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A new species and a new combination in the genus Ephedra from Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2010

H. Freitag
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Kassel, Germany
M. Maier-Stolte
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Kassel, Germany
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Abstract

Ephedra milleri Freitag & Maier-Stolte (Ephedraceae) from Dhofar (Oman) is described. E. sinaica Riedl, described as an endemic from S Sinai and meanwhile collected from numerous localities in higher altitudes of the western escarpment of Arabia is reduced to a subspecies of E. pachyclada.

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Copyright © Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 1992

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