{"id":10923,"date":"2020-11-10T08:58:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T08:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family\/rutaceae\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:19:56","slug":"rutaceae-juss-2","status":"publish","type":"family","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/families\/rutaceae-juss-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RUTACEAE Juss."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rutaceae is composed of 158 genera and about 1,730 species, particularly abundant in tropical and warm-temperate zones. In North Africa it is represented by 2 genera, <strong>Ruta<\/strong> and <strong>Haplophyllum<\/strong><em>, <\/em>although lately, based on molecular studies, the species of <em>Haplophyllum <\/em>tend to be included in <em>Ruta<\/em>. The leaves of these 2 genera are very different, but they have their strong pungent odour in common. In North Africa <strong>Haplophyllum <\/strong>A. Juss. have 2 species, herbaceous but with the basal part of the stems somewhat lignified in the older specimens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H. linifolium <\/strong>(L.) G. Don (<em>R. linifolia<\/em> L., <em>H. hispanicum <\/em>Spach), with stems up to 0.5 m; it differs of <em>Ruta <\/em>by its entire leaves, not pinnate, narrow and elongated; flowers also yellow, with entire petals, glabrous, and fruit a dried capsule. There are several differentiated subspecies, with only subsp. <strong>africanum <\/strong>C.C.Towns. in North Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H. tuberculatum<\/strong> (Forssk.) A. Juss. (<em>Tamahaq<\/em>: Tufiskan), since it sometimes reaches up to 0.5 m in height and the base of the stems is somewhat lignified; it is characterised by being covered by large cup-shaped gland that contain an essence with a very strong and unpleasant odour; it is found in dry and even desert areas of the eastern Mediterranean, reaching towards the E to Pakistan. In North Africa it is found almost throughout the entire northern Sahara and the Sinai Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Common and widespread species. Currently, none of the species have been assessed at a global level in the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em>. In the Livre Rouge de la flore vasculaire du Maroc (Fennane, 2021) both species have been considered as Least Concern (LC).<\/p>\n<p>This family is of considerable interest in agriculture because it includes citrus fruit trees, such as the orange, the mandarin or lemon trees, which originated in the East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-10923","family","type-family","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RUTACEAE Juss. - North Africa Trees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RUTACEAE Juss. - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rutaceae is composed of 158 genera and about 1,730 species, particularly abundant in tropical and warm-temperate zones. 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