Bosea cypria

Bosea cypria
	Bosea cypria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Genus:	Bosea
Species:	B. cypria
Binomial name
	Bosea cypria; Boiss. ex Hook.f.

Bosea cypria is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family.^[1]^[2]^[3] It is a highly branched, evergreen shrub, 1–2 m high, erect, suberect, or hanging on walls, cliffs or trees, with hairless angular shoots. Leaves, opposite, simple, entire-+ elliptical, 2-6 x (1-2-3) cm, hairless, petiolate, dark green, occasionally red green. Flowers in branched spikes, hermaphrodite or unisexual 5-merous, very small, green brown, the floral symmetry is actinomorphic. The fruit is a globose red berry. Flowers from April to July. It is endemic to Cyprus and in the local Greek Cypriot dialect it is called ζουλατζιά (translit: zoulatzia)^[4]

Habitat

It grows on rocky limestone banks, cliffs, old walls or gulleys, from sea level to 600 m.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus. Akamas (Avakas, Kouphes etc.), Kritou Terra, Peyia, Lysos, Theletra, Mesoyi, Kato Paphos, Pakhyammos, Episkopi, Limassol, Potamos Liopetriou, Protaras, Dhiorios, Pentadaktylos, Rizokarpaso.

Cultivation

It has mostly been planted in hedges.

Gallery

Bosea cypria in Akamas Botanical Garden, Cyprus
Branch
Seeds of Bosea cypria
Bosea cypria seedling
Stem, branches and bark

References

^ "Bosea cypria Boiss. ex Hook.f." Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
^ "Bosea cypria Boiss. ex Hook.f." World Flora Online. The World Flora Online Consortium. n.d. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
^ "Bosea cypria Boiss. ex Hook.f." Global Diversity Information Facility. GBIF Secretariat. n.d. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
^ The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2

External links

[KewPOWO-1] "Bosea cypria Boiss. ex Hook.f." Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 20, 2020.

[WFoL-2] "Bosea cypria Boiss. ex Hook.f." World Flora Online. The World Flora Online Consortium. n.d. Retrieved September 20, 2020.

[GBIF-3] "Bosea cypria Boiss. ex Hook.f." Global Diversity Information Facility. GBIF Secretariat. n.d. Retrieved September 20, 2020.

[4] The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2

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