Bosea cypria
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| Bosea cypria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus: | Bosea |
| Species: | B. cypria
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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
[edit]It grows on rocky limestone banks, cliffs, old walls or gulleys, from sea level to 600 m.
Distribution
[edit]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
[edit]It has mostly been planted in hedges.
Gallery
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Bosea cypria in Akamas Botanical Garden, Cyprus -
Branch -
Seeds of Bosea cypria -
Bosea cypria seedling -
Stem, branches and bark
References
[edit]- ^ "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
[edit]- http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo281484.htm
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildlifetravel/8200940920/
- http://www.natureofcyprus.org/detailinfo.aspx?cid=5&recid=205&rowid=51&rowcount=1&pageindex=10&pagesize=5
- http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2680382
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140201145132/http://www.wsl.ch/dendro/xylemdb/index.php?TEXTID=764&MOD=1
- http://www.herbaryum.neu.edu.tr/content/resimler/Amaranthaceae/Bosea[permanent dead link] cypria.JPG
- "Rozwój i budowa pyłku or az liczba chromosomów u Bosea cypria Boiss (Amaranthaceae) [Chromosome number and pollen grain development in Bosea cypria Boiss (Amaranthaceae)]" (in Polish). doi:10.5586/asbp.1960.009.
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