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Genus with about 40 species, distributed throughout Asia (Caucasus, Asia Minor and Iran), NE Australia, Europe and North Africa (Morocco). Many of them are grown for their ornamental value. In North Africa it is represented by a single species, L. vulgare<\/strong><\/a>, of Mediterranean distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","short_name":"Ligustrum","name_html":"Ligustrum<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"","custom_author":"M. Cueto, E. Gim\u00e9nez & J. Charco.","family":[{"name_html":"OLEACEAE <\/strong>Hoffmanns. & Link","short_name":"OLEACEAE","short_description":"","references":"","custom_author":"M. Cueto, E. Gim\u00e9nez & J. Charco.","genuses":{"11149":{"short_name":"Fraxinus","name_html":"Fraxinus<\/strong> (Tourn.) L.","short_description":"","references":"","custom_author":"M. Cueto, E. Gim\u00e9nez & J. Charco.","family":{"ID":"10956","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:21","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:21","post_content":"

Family composed of about 25 genera and about 688 species of trees and shrubs, sometimes lianas, distributed through almost all terrestrial ecosystems of the world, absent from the cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In North Africa, it is represented by 5 genera with tree and shrub species. 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Trunk straight, thick, promptly branching. Bark highly fissured longitudinal and transversely, reticulated, greyish. Branches erect-patent. Younger branchlets greenish. Buds light brown, chestnut-greenish. Leaves (12-25 cm long) all similar, opposite, imparipinnate with (5)7-13 (15) leaflets (4-8.5 \u00d7 1.5-2.5 cm). Leaflets lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptical, serrated or entire only at the base, with acute teeth, deep green on both sides, although slightly lighter on the underside. All leaflets are sessile or subsessile, but grouped along a canaliculate and long petiole, glabrous. Inflorescence appears very early, in small lateral opposite racemes. Flowers unisexual \u2014masculine or feminine\u2014 or hermaphrodite, very small, reddish, without cup nor corolla, formed only by 2 stamens (1.5-3 mm) and\/or a pistil with bilobed stigma. 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Etude des populations d\u2019olivier de Laperrine (Olea europaea<\/em> subsp. laperrinei<\/em>) du Sahara central alg\u00e9rien (Hoggar et Tassili) : aspects biologiques et caract\u00e9risation mol\u00e9culaire. Th\u00e8se de Doctorat, Universit\u00e9 des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene, Alger, 102 p.\r\n\r\nBesnard, G., Christin, P.A., Baali-Cherif, D., Bouguedoura, N. & Anthelme, F. 2007. Spatial genetic structure in the Laperrine's olive (Olea europaea <\/em>subsp. laperrinei<\/em>), a long-living tree from central-Saharan mountains. Heredity<\/em>. 99: 649-657. doi: 10.1038\/sj.hdy.6801051.\r\n\r\nGarc\u00eda-Verdugo, C., Forrest, A.D., Ballaguer, L., Fay, M.F. & Vargas, P. 2010. Parallel evolution of insular Olea europaea <\/em>subspecies based on geographical structuring of plastid DNA variation and phenotypic similarity in leaf traits. Bot J Linn Soc<\/em>. 162: 54\u201363. doi: 10.1111\/j.1095-8339.2009.01013.x.\r\n\r\nM\u00e9dail, F. et al<\/em>. 2001. Systematics, ecology and phylogeographic significance of Olea europaea<\/em> L. ssp. maroccana<\/em> (Greuter and Burdet) P. Vargas et al<\/em>., a relictual olive tree in south-west Morocco. Bot. J. Linn. Soc<\/em>. 137:250.\r\n\r\nVargas, P., Mu\u00f1oz-Garmendia, F., Hess, J. & Kadereit, J. 2001. Olea europaea <\/em>subsp. guanchica<\/em> and subsp. maroccana<\/em> (Oleaceae), two new names for olive tree relatives. Anales Jard. Bot<\/em>. Madrid 58: 360-361.","custom_author":"M. Cueto, E. Gim\u00e9nez & J. Charco.","family":{"ID":"10956","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:21","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:21","post_content":"

Family composed of about 25 genera and about 688 species of trees and shrubs, sometimes lianas, distributed through almost all terrestrial ecosystems of the world, absent from the cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In North Africa, it is represented by 5 genera with tree and shrub species. 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Adult plants present a regular shape, with oval or round crown. Trunk slightly tortuous, thick, short, as it promptly branches. Bark highly fissured, especially in the base of the trunk, greyish-brown. Branches erect-patent, flexible when highly grazed, with slightly spiny bark, smooth, light grey, ashy. Branchlets greenish-ashen. Leaves opposite [(0.5)1-8 \u00d7 0.3-1.2 cm], 2-7 times longer than wide, from oval-lanceolate to oblanceolate or clearly lanceolate \u2014in poor growing conditions they can be very small, elliptic or obovate\u2014 with margin entire and slightly revolute, attenuated at the base, with a short petiole, acute, sometimes mucronate, coriaceous, matt green-greyish on the upper side and ashen-silvery on the underside. Inflorescence in axillary or terminal panicles. Flowers white, small, subsessile. Calyx cupuliform, greenish, with 4 small teeth. Corolla with a single piece, with short tube and 4 white lobes as petals open in the shape of a star. Stamens 2, born fused to the corolla tube. Anthers yellow, very showy. 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In North Africa it is represented by O. europaea<\/strong><\/a>, distributed through most of the African continent, Macaronesia, the Mediterranean region and western-central Asia.","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:20","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:20","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"olea-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-19 16:01:25","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-19 16:01:25","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/olea-l-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11155},"11152":{"short_name":"Phillyrea","name_html":"Phillyrea<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"S\u00e9bastian, C. 1956. Etude du genre <\/em>Phillyrea Tournefort<\/em>. Travaux de l\u2019Institut Scientifique, S\u00e9rie Botanique, n\u00b0 6: 9-102. 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Family composed of about 25 genera and about 688 species of trees and shrubs, sometimes lianas, distributed through almost all terrestrial ecosystems of the world, absent from the cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In North Africa, it is represented by 5 genera with tree and shrub species. The genus Olea<\/strong> appears through most of the region; genera Fraxinus<\/strong>, Ligustrum<\/strong>, Phillyrea <\/strong>and Jasminum<\/strong> appear only in the Mediterranean area.<\/p>","post_title":"OLEACEAE Hoffmanns. & Link","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"oleaceae-hoffmanns-link","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-10 08:58:21","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family\/oleaceae-hoffmanns-link\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"family","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"266","element_type":"post_family","element_id":"10956","trid":"113999","language_code":"en","source_language_code":"es","id":"1","code":"en","english_name":"English","major":"1","active":"1","default_locale":"en_US","tag":"en","encode_url":"0","pod_item_id":"10956"},"species":[{"ID":"13365","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:09:08","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:09:08","post_content":"Evergreen shrub, hermaphrodite, up to 3(4) m in height, erect, with long flexible branches. Main stem and old branches with smooth bark or slightly fissured on older specimens, greyish. Young branches always with smooth greyish bark; branches of the current year, greenish. Leaves (2-8 \u00d7 0.3-1.5 cm) linear or linear-lanceolate, opposite, entire, very rarely with some small teeth spaced apart, with acute apex, attenuated at the base, petiolate, somewhat coriaceous, glabrous, light green or dark green, always slightly lighter on the underside. Inflorescence in very short, axillary racemes. Flowers white, small, hermaphrodite. Calyx campanulate, greenish, with 4 shallow teeth. Corolla with short tube, opened in 4 obtuse lobes. Stamens 2, with large anthers in proportion to the filaments, which are very short. Ovary with short style and wide stigma with 2 lobules. Fruit an ovoid or globose drupe, with a small terminal beak, blueish-black. 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Genus with highly polymorphic species, especially in the shape and size of the leaves, and therefore about 80 species have been described. 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