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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
EDINBURGH
E00405746
PLANTS OF THE ORIENT, 1963; dune 21. M. JACOBS 6986
RHAMNACEAE =
Paliurus spina-christi MILL.
Northern and western Iran. Place: 35°R 46°57'E,
Region: Kordestan; Sanandeaj. Alt.: 1200-1400 m.
Habitat: low rolling mountains with some shrubs
and herbs.
Notes: in rather moist places. Shrub to 14 m tall,
the branches growing vertically, with more or less
dorsiventral twigs in all horizontal directions.
Flowers yellowish-brownish, the petals with a
greenish tinge. Frequent.
Expedition of the University of Minnesota, U.S.A., Dr. H E&. Wright, Jr., leader. Sets of this collection were distributed
by the Rijksherbarium, Leiden, Netherlands (L), to the Herbaria at Vienna (W), Minneapolis (MIN), Edinburgh (E),
Kew (K), and Groningen (GRO).
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