Ifloga spicata subsp. albescens Chrtek
الزَّنمة / شجيرة العتر
Syn. Ifloga rueppellii (Fresen.) Danin (1972)
Asteraceae
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Morphological Description
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Description
Annual, small, woolly, simple or branched, spicate-looking herb up to 12 cm in height, often found sand-encrusted. Leaves are narrow-linear, alternate, entire, gradually thinning to a fine apex, involute, and mucilaginous when wet, appressed-woolly on the upper surface and glabrous beneath. Heads are ovoid, forming axillary glomerules of 2–3 heads or solitary. Fruits are small achenes less than 1 mm long.
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Description
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Habitat and Distribution
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Geographical Distribution Range
This Saharo-Arabian species is distributed only in Jordan and Sinai.
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Ecology
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Phenology
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IUCN Red List Category
Not Evaluated
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Remarks
An annual herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family, fairly common in sandy desert areas. The genus name is an anagram of “Filago,” a naming convention applied to several closely related genera: Filago, Gifola, Ifloga, Logfia, and Oglifa. Given that these genera are very closely related, the author created anagrams of “Filago” to name them (Andrés-Sánchez et al., 2013. Taxonomic revision of the genus Logfia (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) in the Mediterranean region).
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Phenology
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Uses and Values
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Description of Traditional Uses
No specific documented uses were identified in accessible literature.
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Description of Traditional Uses
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