{"id":11074,"date":"2020-11-10T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T09:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/hertia-less-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:43:31","slug":"hertia-less-2","status":"publish","type":"genus","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/genuses\/hertia-less-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hertia Less."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genus composed of 9 species of African distribution. In North Africa there are 2 species, with Mediterranean-Saharan distribution. <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Here is the most robust one:<\/span><\/span><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/hertia-maroccana-batt-maire\/\"><strong>H. maroccana<\/strong><\/a>, a shrub endemic to Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The another species is <em>H. cheirifolia<\/em>, a perennial herb up to 1 m tall, with a hardened but non-woody basal area. Very dense stems and foliage. Leaves alternate, a little fleshy, oblong, mucronate, the lower ones cuneate, the upper ones sessile, with margins scabrous entire. Capitula about 4 cm in diameter, flowers yellow. It is an endemism of the steppe parts of NE Algeria and central Tunisia, from almost sea level (in Tunisia) to about 1400 m (Saharan Atlas, Algeria).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-11074","genus","type-genus","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>Hertia Less. - 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=\"Hertia Less. - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Genus composed of 9 species of African distribution. In North Africa there are 2 species, with Mediterranean-Saharan distribution. Here is the most robust one: H. maroccana, a shrub endemic to Morocco. 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