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Rhanterium

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Rhanterium is a genus of dwarf-shrubs in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae growing in the deserts of the Middle East and northern Africa.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderAsterales
  5. FamilyAsteraceae
Native toAlgeria, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia

General: Rhanterium (from Gr. ραντεριον, ranterion, Aspergillus

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
9
With media
7
Family
Asteraceae
Collections
VT, MO, MNHN
Recorded in
Tunisia, Saudi Arabia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Asteraceae
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Rhanterium epapposum — Guru Hegde 001.jpg
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Category:Rhanterium
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Rhanterium is a genus of dwarf-shrubs in the tribe Inuleae within the family Asteraceae growing in the deserts of the Middle East and northern Africa. Species Rhanterium adpressum Coss. & Durieu - Morocco, Algeria Rhanterium epapposum Oliv. - Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan Rhanterium suaveolens Desf. - Algeria, Libya, Tunisia

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhanterium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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