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Forsskaolea

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Urticaceae

Order
  
Rosales

Rank
  
Genus

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Forsskaolea is a small genus of 6 species of perennial herbs in the nettle family with non-stinging hairs and dot-like concretions of mineral matter on their green parts. The genus was named in honor of Swedish botanist Peter Forsskål.

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Description

Leaves
The leaves have three ribs, are alternate, scalloped and with toothlike projections along the edges.
Flowers
Budding flowers are flat-topped clusters and bisexual and from the base stem, enclosed in bell shaped, densely hairy, rings of 3-6 bracts. Flowers are minute and unisexual with the female surrounded by a ring of male flowers. Male flowers have 3-5 lobed calyx and the females have none. Solitary stamen, upright wooly ovaries with no style.
Seeds
Achenes oval to elliptical, flattened, densely hairy and enveloped in wooly bracts.

Distribution

Forsskaolea have found homes in the southern parts of the Palearctic from the Canary Isles and southeast Spain then eastwards to Pakistan and western India.

Selected species

  • Forsskaolea angustifolia Retz.
  • Forsskaolea candida L.f.
  • Forsskaolea hereroensis Schinz
  • Forsskaolea procridifolia Webb
  • Forsskaolea tenacissima L.
  • Forsskaolea viridis Ehrenb. ex Webb

    • References

    Forsskaolea Wikipedia
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