{"id":11293,"date":"2020-11-10T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T09:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/rhus-l-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T19:58:31","slug":"rhus-l-2","status":"publish","type":"genus","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/genuses\/rhus-l-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhus L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genus with about 130 species distributed across tropical and subtropical areas of almost the entire world, especially in South America. There is a single species in North Africa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/rhus-coriaria\/\"><strong>Rh. coriaria<\/strong><\/a>, from the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, although with a somewhat uncertain origin, because it has been cultivated since ancient times and is widely naturalised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","short_name":"Rhus","name_html":"<strong>Rhus<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Abaza, F., Gammar, A.M. &amp; Ghrabi-Gammar, Z. 2010. Une nouvelle esp\u00e8ce pour la flore vasculaire spontan\u00e9e de la Tunisie: <em>Rhus coriaria <\/em>L. <em>Rev. \u00c9col. (Terre Vie), <\/em>vol. 65: 179-184.","custom_author":"A. Lahora.","family":[{"name_html":"<strong>ANACARDIACEAE <\/strong>R.Br. [Incl. PISTACEAE (Marchand) Caruel.]","short_name":"ANACARDIACEAE","short_description":"","references":"","custom_author":"A. Lahora.","genuses":{"11287":{"short_name":"Pistacia","name_html":"<strong>Pistacia<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Al-Saghir, M.G. &amp; Porter, D.M., 2012. Taxonomic revision of the Genus <em>Pistacia <\/em>L. (Anacardiaceae). <em>American Journal of Plant Sciences<\/em>, 3: 12-32.\r\n\r\nMonjauze, A., 1968. Repartition et Ecologie de <em>Pistacia Atlantica <\/em>Desf. en Alg\u00e9rie<em>. Bulletin de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord, <\/em>56: 1-130.\r\n\r\nZohary, M., 1952. A Monographic study of the genus <em>Pistacia<\/em>. <em>Palestine Journal of Botany. Jerusalem Series<\/em>, 5 (4): 187-228.","custom_author":"P. S\u00e1nchez G\u00f3mez & J.F. Jim\u00e9nez Mart\u00ednez.","family":{"ID":"10914","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_content":"Family composed of about 79 genera and 700 species of trees and shrubs, distributed across temperate and tropical regions around the world. In North Africa it is represented by the genera <strong>Pistacia<\/strong> and <strong>Searsia<\/strong> composed of tree and shrub species. A third genus, <strong>Rhus<\/strong>, distributed in the eastern Mediterranean, is considered native in Algeria and Tunisia by some authors. <em>Schinus terebinthifolia <\/em>Raddi also belongs to this family, and it is considered one of the most dangerous exotic and invasive plants beginning to spread across the North Africa.","post_title":"ANACARDIACEAE R.Br.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anacardiaceae-r-br-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family\/anacardiaceae\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"family","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"224","element_type":"post_family","element_id":"10914","trid":"113985","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":"10914"},"species":[{"ID":"13152","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:46","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:46","post_content":"Tree, deciduous, dioecious, up to 10(15) m in height, but usually not exceeding 6 m, resembling <em>Quercus ilex <\/em>from afar by its globose-hemispherical crown and resembling<em> Fraxinus excelsior <\/em>at a close range for its foliage. Trunk well defined, straight, thick and short, sometimes somewhat tortuous, with a characteristic bark, fissured-flaky, greyish-brown. Young branches greyish. Leaves alternate, composed, imparipinnate; with 7-11 leaflets 2-6 \u00d7 0.6-1.5 cm, lanceolate, obtuse, not mucronate, with entire margin, slightly coriaceous, glabrous, deep green on the upper side and slightly lighter on the underside. Rachis with narrow wings, sometimes inconspicuous. Inflorescence with male flowers in racemes of cymes (thyrse), terminal, at the end of the branches of the previous year, and with female flowers in wide panicles, erect or ascending. Flowers very small and numerous, unisexual, with sepaloid bracteoles, yellow or reddish. Male flower with 2 linear-lanceolate bracts, puberulent and 1-3 bracteoles and 5 stamens. Female flower with 1 lanceolate bract and 2-4 bracteoles, with pistil ending in 3 stigmas. Fruit a subglobose drupe, up to 8 mm, slightly compressed, first greenish-yellow, then reddish and finally reddish-blue.","post_title":"Pistacia atlantica Desf.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pistacia-atlantica","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-11-22 16:38:12","post_modified_gmt":"2023-11-22 16:38:12","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/pistacia-atlantica\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5266","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13152","trid":"114720","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":"13152"},{"ID":"13158","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:46","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:46","post_content":"Tree 4-10 m in height. Leaves deciduous, 13-21 cm long, imparipinnate (with the terminal leaflet smaller or rudimentary) or paripinnate, with (6)7-15 leaflets 5-10 \u00d7 1-2 cm, narrowly lanceolate, subfalcate, attenuated, acuminate or subcuspidate, glabrous, from opposite to subopposite at the base, with terminal leaflet generally present, smaller than the lateral leaflets or rudimentary; the midrib divides the leaflet into 2 unequal halves. Inflorescences in panicles up to 8 cm, branched from the base, similar to spikes. Female inflorescences unbranched from the base, thick. Unisexual flowers, with sepaloid bracteoles. Male flowers with 1-2 bracts, pilose, with (2)4-7 or more bracteoles, (3)4-5 stamens. Female flowers with an oblong-lanceolate bract, pilose, with 4-7(8) bracteoles. Pistil with globose ovary and 3 stigmas. Fruit a drupe globose or obovoid-globose, somewhat laterally compressed, apiculate, up to 7 mm, green when immature, reddish when ripe.","post_title":"Pistacia falcata Becc. ex Martelli","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pistacia-falcata","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-11-22 16:40:17","post_modified_gmt":"2023-11-22 16:40:17","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/pistacia-falcata\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5272","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13158","trid":"114722","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":"13158"},{"ID":"13155","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:46","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:46","post_content":"Shrub or small deciduous tree, dioecious, 3-8(10) m in height. Leaves imparipinnate, 7-15 cm long, with (3)5-9 leaflets variable in size, petiolulate 2-10 \u00d7 1-4(7) cm, ovate to oblong or oblong-lanceolate, with acuminate or acute apex, glabrous along the midrib (puberulous on type variety). Rachis cylindrical, not winged. Inflorescences with male flowers in lax panicles 5-12 cm, erect, highly branched, pilose. Inflorescences with female flowers erect and wide, branched from the base with whitish pilose bracts. Flowers very small and numerous, unisexual, with sepaloid bracteoles. Male flowers with a single bract, linear-lanceolate, whitish, pilose, as long as or slightly longer than the flower, with 2-4 bracteoles, 4-5 stamens and rudimentary pistil, both crimson. Female flower pedicellate, with 2-3 bracts of different length and 5 bracteoles. Pistil with a very short style and stigmas longer than the ovary and the style put together. Fruit a globose drupe, somewhat compressed, 4-6 mm, apiculate.","post_title":"Pistacia khinjuk Stocks","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pistacia-khinjuk","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-11-22 16:30:37","post_modified_gmt":"2023-11-22 16:30:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/pistacia-khinjuk\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5269","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13155","trid":"114721","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":"13155"},{"ID":"13146","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_content":"Shrub or small tree, dioecious, up to 6-8 m in height, that sometimes becomes arboreal with well defined trunk in forest environments. Usually it is a very ramose hemispherical shrub, with stems and old branches tortuous, with greyish-brown to blackish bark. Young branchlets greenish or often reddish. Leaves alternate, composed, paripinnate, with 2-14 opposite or subopposite leaflets 1-5 \u00d7 0.5-2.4 cm, from oblong-lanceolate to elliptical, mucronate, with entire margin, coriaceous, glabrous, deep green on the upper side and slightly lighter on the underside. Rachis clearly winged, with green wings of the same texture and colour as the leaves. Inflorescence spiciform, dense, axillary. Flowers very small, unisexual, with bracteoles similar to the sepals, reddish. Male flowers with 1 bract and 5-6 small bracteoles, 5 stamens with purple anthers. Female flowers with 1 bract and 4-5 bracteoles, ovary with a short style ending in 3 stigmas. Fruit a globose drupe up to 5 mm, with smooth and shiny surface, red at first, blackish-brown when mature, although sterile fruits remain red.","post_title":"Pistacia lentiscus L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pistacia-lentiscus","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-11-22 16:32:29","post_modified_gmt":"2023-11-22 16:32:29","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/pistacia-lentiscus\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5260","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13146","trid":"114718","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":"13146"},{"ID":"13149","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:46","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:46","post_content":"Shrub or, more rarely, small deciduous tree, dioecious, up to 8 m in height in the western Mediterranean, whilst in the eastern Mediterranean it can reach 10-15 m in height with a trunk up to 2 m in diameter. Stems and old branches tortuous, with greyish bark, fissured, scaly. Young branches with reddish-brown, smooth bark. Leaves alternate, composed, imparipinnate, with (1)3-11(13) leaflets 2-8.5 \u00d7 1-4 cm. Leaflets opposite or subopposite, from ovate to elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, with entire margin, coriaceous, glabrous, bright green on the upper side and slightly paler on the underside. In autumn, as they dry, they turn into a carmine colour. Rachis not winged, glabrous. Inflorescence in ramose panicles, lateral, axillary, on the branches of the previous year, appearing before the leaves develop. Flowers very small and numerous, unisexual, reddish or brownish. Male flowers with 1-3 bracts and (2)4-5 sepaloid bracteoles, 5 stamens, with purple anthers. Female flowers with 1-3 bracts and 3-4(7) sepaloid bracteoles, pistil ending in 3 stigmas. Fruit an ovoid to subglobose drupe, up 9(12) mm, somewhat compressed, first greenish-yellowish, then red and finally blue, almost black if it contains a fertile seed.","post_title":"Pistacia terebinthus L.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pistacia-terebinthus","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-11-22 16:36:29","post_modified_gmt":"2023-11-22 16:36:29","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/pistacia-terebinthus\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5263","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13149","trid":"114719","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":"13149"}],"groups_keys":[{"ID":"24188","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-07 10:50:34","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:34","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves imparipinnate, rarely paripinnate, deciduous, rachis not winged or winged","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-imparipinnate-rarely-paripinnate-deciduous-rachis-not-winged-or-winged","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-01-07 10:50:34","post_modified_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:34","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-imparipinnate-rarely-paripinnate-deciduous-rachis-not-winged-or-winged\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"2991","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"24188","trid":"117279","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":"24188"},{"ID":"24191","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-07 10:50:35","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:35","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves with rachis not winged, shrubby or arboreal","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-with-rachis-not-winged-shrubby-or-arboreal","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-01-07 10:50:35","post_modified_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:35","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-with-rachis-not-winged-shrubby-or-arboreal\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"2994","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"24191","trid":"117280","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":"24191"},{"ID":"24194","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-07 10:50:35","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:35","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves imparipinnate, with wider leaflets, from ovate to oblong-lanceolate,  symmetrical","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-imparipinnate-with-wider-leaflets-from-ovate-to-oblong-lanceolate-symmetrical","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-01-07 10:50:35","post_modified_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:35","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-imparipinnate-with-wider-leaflets-from-ovate-to-oblong-lanceolate-symmetrical\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"2997","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"24194","trid":"117281","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":"24194"},{"ID":"35423","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:24:08","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves with rachis narrowly winged, arboreal","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-with-rachis-narrowly-winged-arboreal","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:24:08","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-with-rachis-narrowly-winged-arboreal\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28373","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35423","trid":"185074","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":"35423"},{"ID":"35426","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:24:09","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:09","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves paripinnate or imparipinnate, with narrowly lanceolate leaflets,  subfalcate","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-paripinnate-or-imparipinnate-with-narrowly-lanceolate-leaflets-subfalcate","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:24:09","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:09","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-paripinnate-or-imparipinnate-with-narrowly-lanceolate-leaflets-subfalcate\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28377","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35426","trid":"185076","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":"35426"},{"ID":"35429","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:24:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:10","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves no coriaceous, 1-3(4) pairs of leaflets abruptly acuminate","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-no-coriaceous-1-34-pairs-of-leaflets-abruptly-acuminate","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:24:10","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-no-coriaceous-1-34-pairs-of-leaflets-abruptly-acuminate\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28381","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35429","trid":"185078","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":"35429"},{"ID":"35432","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:24:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:10","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves generally paripinnate, persistent, with winged rachis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-generally-paripinnate-persistent-with-winged-rachis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:24:10","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-generally-paripinnate-persistent-with-winged-rachis\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28385","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35432","trid":"185080","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":"35432"},{"ID":"35435","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:24:11","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:11","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves \u00b1 coriaceous, with (1)2-4(6) pairs of leaflets, not accuminate or slightly acuminate","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-%c2%b1-coriaceous-with-12-46-pairs-of-leaflets-not-accuminate-or-slightly-acuminate","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:24:11","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:24:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-%c2%b1-coriaceous-with-12-46-pairs-of-leaflets-not-accuminate-or-slightly-acuminate\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28389","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35435","trid":"185082","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":"35435"}],"title_groups_keys":false,"groups_keys_2":false,"title_groups_keys_2":false,"groups_keys_3":false,"title_groups_keys_3":false,"images":false,"ID":11287,"post_title":"Pistacia L.","post_content":"<p>Genus composed of about 12 species distributed throughout the western Palaearctic and the SW of North America. In North Africa it is represented by 5 species, 4 distributed in the Mediterranean area, although one of them, <strong>P. atlantica<\/strong>, reaches the northern Sahara with vestigial populations in the mountains of the central Sahara. The fifth species, <strong>P. falcata <\/strong>presents a palaeotropical distribution.<\/p>","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:29","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:29","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pistacia-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-10 09:01:29","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:29","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/pistacia-l-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11287},"11293":{"short_name":"Rhus","name_html":"<strong>Rhus<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Abaza, F., Gammar, A.M. &amp; Ghrabi-Gammar, Z. 2010. Une nouvelle esp\u00e8ce pour la flore vasculaire spontan\u00e9e de la Tunisie: <em>Rhus coriaria <\/em>L. <em>Rev. \u00c9col. (Terre Vie), <\/em>vol. 65: 179-184.","custom_author":"A. Lahora.","family":{"ID":"10914","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_content":"Family composed of about 79 genera and 700 species of trees and shrubs, distributed across temperate and tropical regions around the world. In North Africa it is represented by the genera <strong>Pistacia<\/strong> and <strong>Searsia<\/strong> composed of tree and shrub species. A third genus, <strong>Rhus<\/strong>, distributed in the eastern Mediterranean, is considered native in Algeria and Tunisia by some authors. <em>Schinus terebinthifolia <\/em>Raddi also belongs to this family, and it is considered one of the most dangerous exotic and invasive plants beginning to spread across the North Africa.","post_title":"ANACARDIACEAE R.Br.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anacardiaceae-r-br-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family\/anacardiaceae\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"family","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"224","element_type":"post_family","element_id":"10914","trid":"113985","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":"10914"},"species":[{"ID":"13128","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:44","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:44","post_content":"Erect shrub or small tree up to 5 m in height. Branches fragile, densely covered with brown-greyish hairs, not glanduliferous. Leaves deciduous or semideciduous, bright green, red and orange in autumn; large, imparipinnate, with hairy rachis and with 5-7 pairs of opposite or nearly opposite leaflets. Leaflets densely pubescent on the underside, from ovate to lanceolate with crenate-serrate margin, sessile except for the terminal leaflet, which is similar to the lateral leaflets but is petiolate. Flowers densely grouped in panicles of 15-25 cm, terminal or more rarely axillary, upright and pyramidal. Flowers small 3-4 mm, unisexual or hermaphrodite, yellow-greenish, female flowers with 3 short styles, male flowers with 5 exserted stamens with yellow anthers. Calyx with 5 minute sepals, ovate, villous. Petals twice as long as the sepals, white-greenish, ovate. Fruit a lenticular reniform drupe, 4-6 mm, reddish-brown and hirsute, with glandular hairs, and lanate in appearance when mature.","post_title":"Rhus coriaria","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rhus-coriaria","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/rhus-coriaria\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5242","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13128","trid":"114712","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":"13128"}],"groups_keys":false,"title_groups_keys":false,"groups_keys_2":false,"title_groups_keys_2":false,"groups_keys_3":false,"title_groups_keys_3":false,"images":false,"ID":11293,"post_title":"Rhus L.","post_content":"Genus with about 130 species distributed across tropical and subtropical areas of almost the entire world, especially in South America. There is a single species in North Africa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/rhus-coriaria\/\"><strong>Rh. coriaria<\/strong><\/a>, from the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, although with a somewhat uncertain origin, because it has been cultivated since ancient times and is widely naturalised.","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rhus-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-18 19:58:31","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-18 19:58:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/rhus-l-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11293},"11290":{"short_name":"Searsia","name_html":"<strong>Searsia<\/strong> F.A. Barkley","short_description":"","references":"Moffet, R.O. 2007. Name changes in the Old World <em>Rhus<\/em> and recognition of <em>Searsia<\/em> (Anacardiaceae). <em>Bothalia<\/em> 37(2): 165-175.","custom_author":"A. Lahora.","family":{"ID":"10914","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_content":"Family composed of about 79 genera and 700 species of trees and shrubs, distributed across temperate and tropical regions around the world. In North Africa it is represented by the genera <strong>Pistacia<\/strong> and <strong>Searsia<\/strong> composed of tree and shrub species. A third genus, <strong>Rhus<\/strong>, distributed in the eastern Mediterranean, is considered native in Algeria and Tunisia by some authors. <em>Schinus terebinthifolia <\/em>Raddi also belongs to this family, and it is considered one of the most dangerous exotic and invasive plants beginning to spread across the North Africa.","post_title":"ANACARDIACEAE R.Br.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anacardiaceae-r-br-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family\/anacardiaceae\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"family","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"224","element_type":"post_family","element_id":"10914","trid":"113985","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":"10914"},"species":[{"ID":"13131","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:44","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:44","post_content":"Shrub up to 3.5(5) m in height, very ramose. Trunk well defined, almost arboreal when growing within a forest environment. Bark greyish-brown. Young branches pubescent, reddish or greenish-greyish. Leaves with 3 leaflets (rarely 4 or 5), alternate, solitary or in fascicles. Leaflets obovate, broadly obovate or obovate-spatulate, obtuse, entire or with few shallow lobes; central leaflet is always slightly larger than the lateral ones; leaf colour is greenish-ashen to silvery on both sides. Petiole well developed, almost as long as the leaf or sometimes even longer, flattened, with narrow lateral foliaceous wings. Inflorescence in racemes of sparse axillary cymes. Flowers with long peduncles and pedicels. Calyx with 5 very small sepals, triangular, greenish. Corolla with 5 petals opened in the shape of a star, ovate or ovate-oblong, yellow. Stamens 5, inserted along the edge of a fleshy central disc. Fruit a globose drupe, greenish-yellowish at first, then red and finally blackish, with smooth and shiny surface. Fruit terminal appendages inconspicuous or not present.","post_title":"Searsia albida (Schousb.) Moffett","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"searsia-albida","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-15 12:50:20","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-15 12:50:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/searsia-albida\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5245","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13131","trid":"114713","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":"13131"},{"ID":"13134","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_content":"Shrub or small tree, up to 7 m in height, but generally smaller (2-3 m). Bark greyish-brown and branchlets densely hairy-tomentose. Leaves digitate, with petiole 1-2 cm and 3 sessile leaflets 2-5 \u00d7 1.5-3 cm, suborbicular to ovate-elliptical, with entire margin and rounded apex; the central leaflet larger than the 2 lateral ones, with dense brown hairs on both sides. Flowers minute, in lax axillary panicles, shorter than adjacent leaf. Pedicels villous erect-patent, longer than the flowers, bracts acute and ovate. Sepals ovate. Petals oblong, obtuse, greenish, 2-3 times longer than the calyx. Stamens shorter than the petals. Drupe globose 5 \u00d7 4 mm, lustrous brown.","post_title":"Searsia flexicaulis (Baker) Moffett","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"searsia-flexicaulis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-15 12:48:33","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-15 12:48:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/searsia-flexicaulis\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5248","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13134","trid":"114714","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":"13134"},{"ID":"13137","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_content":"Shrub or small tree, dioecious, up to 5 m in height. Bark dark greyish, brown or reddish. Branchlets densely covered with short yellowish hairs, not glutinous. Leaves trifoliolate, with petiole up to 8 cm in length, leaflets sessile, ovate-lanceolate (the central leaflet longer, up to 15 cm), with dark venation on the upper side, pubescent-tomentose on both sides; margin of leaflets entire or crenate, with lobules or rounded teeth, except at the end that is usually acute. Flowers shortly pedicellate, subsessile, in terminal or axillary panicles shorter than the leaves, with hairy branches. Petals ovate, light brown. Fruits small, rounded, shiny brown, slightly flattened, with a persistent calyx.","post_title":"Searsia glutinosa (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Moffett subsp. abyssinica (Hochst. ex Oliv.) Moffett","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"searsia-glutinosa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-15 12:54:48","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-15 12:54:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/searsia-glutinosa\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5251","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13137","trid":"114715","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":"13137"},{"ID":"13140","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_content":"Shrub up to 3(4) m in height, spiny, very ramose, sometimes intricate. Stems tortuous, with greyish-brown, fissured bark. Branches with strong spines, greyish. Branchlets also greyish, not reddish as in <em>S. tripartita<\/em>. Leaves deciduous in summer, with 3-5 leaflets, alternate, generally grouped in fascicles. Leaflets linear or linear-spatulate, entire or with the tip divided in 3 lobules or acute or obtuse teeth \u2014the central lobule is the largest and the 2 lateral ones are shorter\u2014, leaves green on both sides, young leaves slightly pubescent. Petiole well developed, almost as long or longer than the leaf, flattened, with lateral foliaceous wings (when they are very wide they look like an extra leaflet). Inflorescence in racemes of axillary cymes, of unisexual flowers. Calyx with 5 small triangular sepals, green. Corolla with 5 oblong petals, opened in the shape of a star, yellow. Stamens 5, borne along the edge of the central fleshy disc. Fruit a globose drupe, greenish-yellowish at first, then red and finally blackish, smooth and shiny, with 3 small appendages at the top.","post_title":"Searsia pentaphylla (Jacq.) F.A.Barkley","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"searsia-pentaphylla","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-15 12:56:31","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-15 12:56:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/searsia-pentaphylla\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5254","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13140","trid":"114716","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":"13140"},{"ID":"13143","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:45","post_content":"Shrub, dioecious, up to 3(4) m in height, spiny, very ramose, sometimes intricate, especially when grazed by cattle. Stems and older branches tortuous, with strong spines. Bark greyish-brown, fissured. Young branches reddish-brown, sometimes clearly red, smooth, slightly shiny. Leaves trifoliolate (leaflets rarely 5), alternate, generally grouped in fascicles. Central leaflet larger than the 2 lateral ones; obovate or oblong, sometimes spatulate, with lobules or with wide teeth on the upper half or more rarely along the entire contour \u2014sometimes twice lobulate-dentate\u2014; glabrous and deep green on the upper side and \u00b1 pubescent and slightly lighter on the underside. Petiole well developed, almost as long as the leaf (sometimes even longer) flattened in cross section and curved upwards. Inflorescence in ramose axillary racemes, short (2-3 cm). Calyx with 5 triangular sepals, very small, green. Corolla with 5 oval-triangular petals, open in the shape of a star, yellow. Stamens 5, borne on a central fleshy disc, yellow. Fruit a circular compressed drupe, similar to a wide lentil, 3-7 mm in diameter, greenish-yellowish at first, then red and finally black, smooth, shiny, with 3 small appendages at the top.","post_title":"Searsia tripartita (Ucria) Moffett","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"searsia-tripartita","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-15 12:59:14","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-15 12:59:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/searsia-tripartita\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5257","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13143","trid":"114717","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":"13143"}],"groups_keys":[{"ID":"24185","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-07 10:50:34","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:34","post_content":"","post_title":"Branchlets not spinescent","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"branchlets-not-spinescent","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-01-07 10:50:34","post_modified_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:34","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/branchlets-not-spinescent\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"2988","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"24185","trid":"117278","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":"24185"},{"ID":"35741","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:26:08","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:08","post_content":"","post_title":"Branchlets spinescent","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"branchlets-spinescent","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:26:08","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/branchlets-spinescent\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28797","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35741","trid":"185287","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":"35741"},{"ID":"35735","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:26:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:05","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaflets up to 15 cm, ovate-lanceolate, with acute apex","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaflets-up-to-15-cm-ovate-lanceolate-with-acute-apex","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:26:05","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaflets-up-to-15-cm-ovate-lanceolate-with-acute-apex\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28789","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35735","trid":"185283","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":"35735"},{"ID":"35732","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:26:04","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:04","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaflets up to 5 cm, suborbicular to ovate-elliptic,  With rounded apex","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaflets-up-to-5-cm-suborbicular-to-ovate-elliptic-with-rounded-apex","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:26:04","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaflets-up-to-5-cm-suborbicular-to-ovate-elliptic-with-rounded-apex\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28785","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35732","trid":"185281","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":"35732"},{"ID":"35738","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:26:07","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:07","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves generally with 5 linear leaflets. Fruit globose","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-generally-with-5-linear-leaflets-fruit-globose","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:26:07","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-generally-with-5-linear-leaflets-fruit-globose\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28793","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35738","trid":"185285","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":"35738"},{"ID":"24179","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-07 10:50:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:33","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves green, sometimes light green, but never ashy nor silvery","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-green-sometimes-light-green-but-never-ashy-nor-silvery","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-01-07 10:50:33","post_modified_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-green-sometimes-light-green-but-never-ashy-nor-silvery\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"2982","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"24179","trid":"117276","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":"24179"},{"ID":"35729","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 14:26:03","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:03","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves greenish-ashen, silvery","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-greenish-ashen-silvery","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 14:26:03","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 14:26:03","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-greenish-ashen-silvery\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"28781","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"35729","trid":"185279","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":"35729"},{"ID":"24182","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-07 10:50:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:33","post_content":"","post_title":"Leaves with 3 leaflets, obovate-lanceolate. Fruit circular, compressed","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-with-3-leaflets-obovate-lanceolate-fruit-circular-compressed","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-01-07 10:50:33","post_modified_gmt":"2021-01-07 10:50:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus-group-key\/leaves-with-3-leaflets-obovate-lanceolate-fruit-circular-compressed\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"genus_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"2985","element_type":"post_genus_group_key","element_id":"24182","trid":"117277","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":"24182"}],"title_groups_keys":false,"groups_keys_2":false,"title_groups_keys_2":false,"groups_keys_3":false,"title_groups_keys_3":false,"images":false,"ID":11290,"post_title":"Searsia F.A. Barkley","post_content":"Genus composed of about 110 species distributed mainly in Africa and western Asia. In North Africa it is represented by 5 species, distributed through Mediterranean and semidesert areas, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Recent molecular analyses have shown that <em>Searsia<\/em> is a monophyletic genus and has been separated from <em>Rhus<\/em>.","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:29","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:29","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"searsia-f-a-barkley-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 15:39:30","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 15:39:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/searsia-f-a-barkley-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11290}},"groups_keys":{"20844":{"ID":20844,"post_title":"Leaves pinnate, with up to 15 leaflets","post_content":"","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-07 08:33:34","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-07 08:33:34","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-pinnate-with-up-to-15-leaflets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-01-07 08:33:34","post_modified_gmt":"2021-01-07 08:33:34","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family-group-key\/leaves-pinnate-with-up-to-15-leaflets\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"family_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":20844},"31881":{"ID":31881,"post_title":"Leaflets with entire margin; flowers without petals; fruits glabrous","post_content":"","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 13:40:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 13:40:19","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaflets-with-entire-margin-flowers-without-petals-fruits-glabrous","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 13:40:19","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 13:40:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family-group-key\/leaflets-with-entire-margin-flowers-without-petals-fruits-glabrous\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"family_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","id":31881},"31884":{"ID":31884,"post_title":"Leaflets with crenate, dentate or \u00b1 serrate margin; flowers with petals; \tfruits villous-lanate","post_content":"","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 13:40:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 13:40:19","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaflets-with-crenate-dentate-or-%c2%b1-serrate-margin-flowers-with-petals-fruits-villous-lanate","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 13:40:19","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 13:40:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family-group-key\/leaflets-with-crenate-dentate-or-%c2%b1-serrate-margin-flowers-with-petals-fruits-villous-lanate\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"family_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","id":31884},"31887":{"ID":31887,"post_title":"Leaves palmate, with 3-5 leaflets","post_content":"","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-02-23 13:40:20","post_date_gmt":"2021-02-23 13:40:20","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"leaves-palmate-with-3-5-leaflets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-02-23 13:40:20","post_modified_gmt":"2021-02-23 13:40:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family-group-key\/leaves-palmate-with-3-5-leaflets\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"family_group_key","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","id":31887}},"title_groups_keys":[],"images":false,"phylogenetic_order":"55","ID":10914,"post_title":"ANACARDIACEAE R.Br.","post_content":"Family composed of about 79 genera and 700 species of trees and shrubs, distributed across temperate and tropical regions around the world. In North Africa it is represented by the genera <strong>Pistacia<\/strong> and <strong>Searsia<\/strong> composed of tree and shrub species. A third genus, <strong>Rhus<\/strong>, distributed in the eastern Mediterranean, is considered native in Algeria and Tunisia by some authors. <em>Schinus terebinthifolia <\/em>Raddi also belongs to this family, and it is considered one of the most dangerous exotic and invasive plants beginning to spread across the North Africa.","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anacardiaceae-r-br-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":[],"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family\/anacardiaceae\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"family","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":10914}],"species":[{"short_name":"Rhus coriaria","name_html":"<strong>Rhus coriaria<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","common_names":"","other_name":"<em>Eng.<\/em>: Tanner's sumach, elm-leaved sumach.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Spa<\/em>.: Zumaque.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Fre.<\/em>: Sumac, sumac des corroyeurs.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Ara<\/em>.: Sumaq, summaq, semaq, debarh, deburh.","flowering":"March to May.","fruiting":"May to August.","habitat":"Disturbed land near towns and ancient cultivation fields, more rarely in thickets of scree slopes.","distribution":"Presumably Irano-Turanian. In North Africa it has been cited, with doubts about his spontaneity, in Algeria (littoral region of Algiers and surrounding mountains of Constantine) and Tunisia [Tebursuk Mts. (Jebel Gorr\u00e2a) near Djebba].","observations":"This species is included here because it has been part of the Mediterranean landscape for centuries or even millennia (and also because it is considered a native species by some authors). It has been cultivated in large areas in all the Mediterranean countries and in the W of Asia, from antiquity, due to the high concentration of tannins in the plant, especially in its bark and roots. Although it had many uses, it was mostly used for the tanning of leather. After this practice was abandoned (as was its cultivation), these shrubs continue to grow today subspontaneously in numerous parts of the Mediterranean region and in others countries of the world.","conservation":"Little is known about the species\u2019 native area of distribution. In the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em>, it is listed as Least Concern (LC) at global level. In Algeria it is included in the List of protected non cultivated flora (Executive Decree 12-03 on 4-Jan-2012).","genus":{"11293":{"short_name":"Rhus","name_html":"<strong>Rhus<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Abaza, F., Gammar, A.M. &amp; Ghrabi-Gammar, Z. 2010. Une nouvelle esp\u00e8ce pour la flore vasculaire spontan\u00e9e de la Tunisie: <em>Rhus coriaria <\/em>L. <em>Rev. \u00c9col. (Terre Vie), <\/em>vol. 65: 179-184.","custom_author":"A. Lahora.","family":{"ID":"10914","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:19","post_content":"Family composed of about 79 genera and 700 species of trees and shrubs, distributed across temperate and tropical regions around the world. In North Africa it is represented by the genera <strong>Pistacia<\/strong> and <strong>Searsia<\/strong> composed of tree and shrub species. A third genus, <strong>Rhus<\/strong>, distributed in the eastern Mediterranean, is considered native in Algeria and Tunisia by some authors. <em>Schinus terebinthifolia <\/em>Raddi also belongs to this family, and it is considered one of the most dangerous exotic and invasive plants beginning to spread across the North Africa.","post_title":"ANACARDIACEAE R.Br.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"anacardiaceae-r-br-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 15:37:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family\/anacardiaceae\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"family","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"224","element_type":"post_family","element_id":"10914","trid":"113985","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":"10914"},"species":[{"ID":"13128","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:44","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:44","post_content":"Erect shrub or small tree up to 5 m in height. Branches fragile, densely covered with brown-greyish hairs, not glanduliferous. Leaves deciduous or semideciduous, bright green, red and orange in autumn; large, imparipinnate, with hairy rachis and with 5-7 pairs of opposite or nearly opposite leaflets. Leaflets densely pubescent on the underside, from ovate to lanceolate with crenate-serrate margin, sessile except for the terminal leaflet, which is similar to the lateral leaflets but is petiolate. Flowers densely grouped in panicles of 15-25 cm, terminal or more rarely axillary, upright and pyramidal. Flowers small 3-4 mm, unisexual or hermaphrodite, yellow-greenish, female flowers with 3 short styles, male flowers with 5 exserted stamens with yellow anthers. Calyx with 5 minute sepals, ovate, villous. Petals twice as long as the sepals, white-greenish, ovate. Fruit a lenticular reniform drupe, 4-6 mm, reddish-brown and hirsute, with glandular hairs, and lanate in appearance when mature.","post_title":"Rhus coriaria","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rhus-coriaria","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/rhus-coriaria\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5242","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13128","trid":"114712","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":"13128"}],"groups_keys":false,"title_groups_keys":false,"groups_keys_2":false,"title_groups_keys_2":false,"groups_keys_3":false,"title_groups_keys_3":false,"images":false,"ID":11293,"post_title":"Rhus L.","post_content":"Genus with about 130 species distributed across tropical and subtropical areas of almost the entire world, especially in South America. There is a single species in North Africa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/rhus-coriaria\/\"><strong>Rh. coriaria<\/strong><\/a>, from the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, although with a somewhat uncertain origin, because it has been cultivated since ancient times and is widely naturalised.","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:30","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rhus-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-18 19:58:31","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-18 19:58:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/rhus-l-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11293}},"images":[{"ID":"28406","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-04 13:55:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-04 13:55:19","post_content":"","post_title":"Rhus coriaria. 1. Jos\u00e9 Quiles","post_excerpt":"Rhus coriaria. Twig with leaves and inflorescence. Jos\u00e9 Quiles.","post_status":"inherit","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rhus-coriaria-1-jose-quiles-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"13128","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Rhus-coriaria.-1.-Jose-Quiles.jpg","menu_order":"0","post_type":"attachment","post_mime_type":"image\/jpeg","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"20296","element_type":"post_attachment","element_id":"28406","trid":"119290","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":"28406"},{"ID":"28408","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-04 13:55:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-04 13:55:21","post_content":"","post_title":"Rhus coriaria. 2. Jos\u00e9 Quiles","post_excerpt":"Rhus coriaria. Detail of immature fruits (drupes). Jos\u00e9 Quiles.","post_status":"inherit","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rhus-coriaria-2-jose-quiles-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"13128","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Rhus-coriaria.-2.-Jose-Quiles.jpg","menu_order":"0","post_type":"attachment","post_mime_type":"image\/jpeg","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"20298","element_type":"post_attachment","element_id":"28408","trid":"119291","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":"28408"},{"ID":"28410","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-04 13:55:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-04 13:55:21","post_content":"","post_title":"Rhus coriaria. 3. Jes\u00fas Charco","post_excerpt":"Rhus coriaria. Leaves and fruitful panicle with immature fruits (drupes). Jes\u00fas Charco.","post_status":"inherit","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rhus-coriaria-3-jesus-charco-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 16:05:19","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 16:05:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"13128","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Rhus-coriaria.-3.-Jesus-Charco.jpg","menu_order":"0","post_type":"attachment","post_mime_type":"image\/jpeg","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"20300","element_type":"post_attachment","element_id":"28410","trid":"119292","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":"28410"},{"ID":"28412","post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-01-04 13:55:23","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-04 13:55:23","post_content":"","post_title":"Rhus coriaria. 4. Jes\u00fas Charco","post_excerpt":"Rhus coriaria. Leaves and fruitful panicle with ripe fruits (drupes). Jes\u00fas Charco.","post_status":"inherit","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rhus-coriaria-4-jesus-charco-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 16:05:19","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 16:05:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"13128","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Rhus-coriaria.-4.-Jesus-Charco.jpg","menu_order":"0","post_type":"attachment","post_mime_type":"image\/jpeg","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"20302","element_type":"post_attachment","element_id":"28412","trid":"119293","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":"28412"}],"map_legend":"","kml":false,"zone_1":"","zone_2":"","zone_3":"","zone_4":"","zone_5":"","zone_6":"","zone_7":"","zone_8":"","zone_9":"","zone_10":"","zone_11":"","zone_12":"","ID":13128,"post_title":"Rhus coriaria","post_content":"Erect shrub or small tree up to 5 m in height. Branches fragile, densely covered with brown-greyish hairs, not glanduliferous. Leaves deciduous or semideciduous, bright green, red and orange in autumn; large, imparipinnate, with hairy rachis and with 5-7 pairs of opposite or nearly opposite leaflets. Leaflets densely pubescent on the underside, from ovate to lanceolate with crenate-serrate margin, sessile except for the terminal leaflet, which is similar to the lateral leaflets but is petiolate. Flowers densely grouped in panicles of 15-25 cm, terminal or more rarely axillary, upright and pyramidal. Flowers small 3-4 mm, unisexual or hermaphrodite, yellow-greenish, female flowers with 3 short styles, male flowers with 5 exserted stamens with yellow anthers. Calyx with 5 minute sepals, ovate, villous. Petals twice as long as the sepals, white-greenish, ovate. Fruit a lenticular reniform drupe, 4-6 mm, reddish-brown and hirsute, with glandular hairs, and lanate in appearance when mature.","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:44","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:44","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rhus-coriaria","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-26 16:05:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":[],"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/rhus-coriaria\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":13128}],"groups_keys":false,"title_groups_keys":false,"groups_keys_2":false,"title_groups_keys_2":false,"groups_keys_3":false,"title_groups_keys_3":false,"images":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.6.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rhus L. - 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=\"Rhus L. - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Genus with about 130 species distributed across tropical and subtropical areas of almost the entire world, especially in South America. There is a single species in North Africa, Rh. coriaria, from the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, although with a somewhat uncertain origin, because it has been cultivated since ancient times and is widely naturalised.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/genuses\/rhus-l-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-18T19:58:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"North \\u00e1frica trees\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/#logo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/logo-north-africa-trees.png\",\"width\":80,\"height\":70,\"caption\":\"North \\u00e1frica trees\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/#logo\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/\",\"name\":\"North Africa Trees\",\"description\":\"\\u00c1rboles y arbustos aut\\u00f3ctonos del Norte de \\u00c1frica\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/genuses\/rhus-l-2\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/genuses\/rhus-l-2\/\",\"name\":\"Rhus L. - North Africa Trees\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-10T09:01:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-18T19:58:31+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/genuses\/rhus-l-2\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genus\/11293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genus"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/genus"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}