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Ephedra alata

Synonyms: Ephedra alata alenda; Ephedra alata decaisnei; Ephedra alata var. decaisnei

Wikipedia Abstract

Ephedra alata is a species of Ephedra that is native from Morocco and the Sahara in northern Africa, the Middle East. Taxonomy It was originally described by Joseph Decaisne in 1834 and placed in section Alatae, tribe Tropidolepides by Otto Stapf in 1889. In 1996 Robert A. Price left E. alata in section Alatae without recognizing a tribe.
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Infraspecies

Ephedra alata alata
Ephedra alata alenda
Ephedra alata monjauzeana

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Structure [2]  Shrub

Predators

Dynaspidiotus ephedrarum[3]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0