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This genus is accepted, and is native to Europe, Pakistan, Africa and Asia-Temperate..

[FSOM]

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Habit
Herbs or small shrubs, glabrous
Leaves
Leaves simple, entire
Inflorescences
Racemes corymbose, lax in fruit
Calyx
Sepals erect, the inner ones saccate
Corolla
Petals pink, purple or white
Fruits
Fruit a siliqua; valves with a distinct median vein
Seeds
Seeds in 1 or 2 rows in each cell.
Distribution
Eight species in the Mediterranean region and eastwards to Pakistan.

Doubtfully present in:

Yugoslavia

Native to:

Algeria, Baleares, Canary Is., Chad, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Italy, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Somalia, Spain, Tunisia, Yemen

Introduced into:

Corse, France, Sardegna

Moricandia DC. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Syst. Nat. 2: 626 (1821)

Accepted by

  • Jalas, J., Suominen, J. & Lampinen, R. (eds.) (1996). Atlas Florae Europaeae. Distribution of vascular plants in Europe 11: 1-310.

Literature

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0