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Genus composed of about 77 species of biennial or perennial herbaceous plants, sometimes very tall and vigorous, with pubescent stems. It is an ancient genus present in SW and central Asia, widespread in the Mediterranean area, where it is especially abundant in the eastern part. Almost all of its species are used as ornamentals, even some have an industrial application, being used for the production of paper pulp. In North Africa one species appears, at least partially woody, A.striata<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","short_name":"Alcea","name_html":"Alcea<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Vald\u00e9s, B., 1996. Notas sobre Lavatera<\/em> de Marruecos. Lagascalia<\/em>, 18: 237-240.","custom_author":"A.F. Carrillo.","family":[{"name_html":"MALVACEAE <\/strong>Juss.","short_name":"MALVACEAE","short_description":"","references":"Tate, J.A., Aguilar, J.F., Wagstaff, S.J., La Duke, J.C., Bodo Slotta T.A. & Simpson, B.B. 2005. 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Annual and perennial herbaceous plants, or shrubs, rarely small trees. In North Africa it is represented by 4 taxa, distributed mainly through the Sahara. The largest species is A. longicuspe<\/strong>, a shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall. The other species (A. pannosum<\/strong>, A. fruticosum <\/strong>and A. bidentatum<\/strong>) are herbaceous perennials with slightly lignified stems at the base that can reach up to 1(2) m in height.\r\n\r\nSeveral species of the genus of tropical origin, generally Asian, are cultivated on the 5 continents and, in several countries, they are already beginning to behave as invasive, also in North Africa. Two species should be highlighted, both perennial plants, with older stems somewhat lignified at the base, up to 1.5(3) m tall, cordate leaves, solitary flowers, yellow petals and fruits with 15-22 mericarps. A. indicum<\/em> (L.) Sweet [A.<\/em> albidum<\/em> (Willd.) 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In North Africa, it is found in the southern Sahara and the Sahel, reaching in the N to Algeria, Libya and Egypt.","post_title":"MALVACEAE Juss.","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"malvaceae-juss-3","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-12-18 19:02:13","post_modified_gmt":"2021-12-18 19:02:13","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family\/malvaceae\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"family","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"218","element_type":"post_family","element_id":"10908","trid":"113983","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":"10908"},"species":[{"ID":"13095","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:42","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:42","post_content":"Perennial plant, up to 0.8(1) m in height. Stems erect or ascending, slightly or not lignified, cylindrical or slightly tapered, whitish, with adpressed-tomentose hairs. Leaf blade (3)4-6 cm, broadly ovate to orbicular-cordate, entire, shallowly lobed or deeply 3-5-lobed, with terminal lobe triangular or ovate-oblong, and crenate-dentate margin. Petiole 5-18 cm, lower leaves with long petioles, upper leaves with shorter petioles. Stipules 6-8 mm. Flowers in leafy racemes; pedicel 0.3-1.5 cm thick; upper flowers subsessile. Epicalyx about half or less the length of the calyx, with 6-8 acute triangular parts. Calyx 1.5-2.0 cm, with triangular-ovate and striated lobes. Corolla 5-6 cm in diameter, whitish creamy, with notched apex and cuneate base. Fruits with numerous mericarps, between 3-5 mm, with laterally sides radially wrinkled, pilose, black, with thick margin.","post_title":"Alcea striata","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alcea-striata","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-04 19:08:29","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-04 19:08:29","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/alcea-striata\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5209","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13095","trid":"114701","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":"13095"}],"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":11302,"post_title":"Alcea L.","post_content":"Genus composed of about 77 species of biennial or perennial herbaceous plants, sometimes very tall and vigorous, with pubescent stems. It is an ancient genus present in SW and central Asia, widespread in the Mediterranean area, where it is especially abundant in the eastern part. Almost all of its species are used as ornamentals, even some have an industrial application, being used for the production of paper pulp. In North Africa one species appears, at least partially woody, A.striata<\/strong><\/a>.","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":"alcea-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-18 18:26:37","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-18 18:26:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/alcea-l-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11302},"11317":{"short_name":"Gossypium","name_html":"Gossypium<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"","custom_author":"A.F. Carrillo.","family":{"ID":"10908","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:18","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:18","post_content":"Family composed of 243 genera and some 4,225 species of cosmopolitan distribution. In North Africa, in terms of \u00b1 woody taxa, it is represented by 12 genera with tree, shrub and herbaceous species, with stems somewhat lignified. Corchorus <\/strong>L., could also be added, with the species C. depressus<\/strong> (L.) Stocks [Antichorus depressus<\/em> L., C. antichorus<\/em> (L.) Raeusch., C. microphyllus<\/em> Fresen.], with creeping, herbaceous stems, slightly lignified at the base, but only 20(40) cm in height; elliptic leaves with crenate margin; pentamerous flowers, solitary; yellow corolla and fruit in capsule 1-1.5 cm, cylindrical, slightly curved, with 4 valves. It grows from the Cape Verde Islands to India. 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Stems highly branched, mainly from the base. Leaf blade 3-8 cm, orbicular, cordate, (3)5(7)-lobed; lobes generally ovate, acute apex. Leaf pubescent-stellate and with more simple hairs on the underside than on the upper side; underside scattered with glands; petiole 2-5.5 cm, pubescent-stellate, with long scattered simple hairs. Stipule 0.8-1 \u00d7 0.15 cm, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent-stellate, caducous. Flowers 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter, solitary, axillary; pedicel 1.5-3 cm. Epicalyx with 3 segments, 2.5-3 \u00d7 2 cm fused at the base, cordate, deeply dentate margin, especially at the apex, pubescent. Calyx 0.8-1 cm, campanulate, smoothly dentate, with black glands. Petals c. <\/em>4 \u00d7 3 cm, obovate, yellow, with purple centre. Capsule 2.5-3 cm, subglobose, acuminate, dark brown; valves with deep rounded cavities, exposing the cotton fibres at dehiscence. Seeds 6-8 \u00d7 3-5 mm, ovoid, with long white hair.","post_title":"Gossypium herbaceum","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gossypium-herbaceum","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-10-25 11:07:43","post_modified_gmt":"2021-10-25 11:07:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/gossypium-herbaceum\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5173","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13059","trid":"114689","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":"13059"}],"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":11317,"post_title":"Gossypium L.","post_content":"Genus with about 54 species, trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, with simple, entire or lobulate leaves. They are distributed through temperate warm and tropical regions. In North Africa G. herbaceum <\/strong><\/a>is found, which is a perennial species.","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gossypium-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-09-18 18:03:31","post_modified_gmt":"2021-09-18 18:03:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/gossypium-l-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11317},"11332":{"short_name":"Grewia","name_html":"Grewia<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Andrews, F.W. 1950. The flowering plants of the anglo-egyptian Sudan. <\/em>Vol. I (Cycadaceae - Tiliaceae). Sudan Government. By T. Buncle & Co. LTD.","custom_author":"A.F. 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Mature branches dark grey and glabrous, young shoots densely covered by stellate hairs. Leaves pale green on both sides, rounded-obovate, cuneate at the base, dentate, c. <\/em>3.8 cm long, with 3-5 veins from the base, glaucous on the upper side, pale and slightly stellate-pubescent on the underside. Inflorescences opposite to the leaves, with solitary flowers; peduncles 1-10 mm long, pedicels 2-10 mm long. Calyx with elliptic sepals 10-15 mm long. Corolla with white petals, 7-10 mm long, linear-oblong to obovate, with a nectary at the base. Ovary with 2 locules, with 2 ovules in each one; stigma widely lobulate. Fruit with 2-4 lobules, 4-5 mm in diameter, rugose.","post_title":"Grewia erythraea","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"grewia-erythraea","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-14 16:53:03","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-14 16:53:03","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/grewia-erythraea\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5137","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13023","trid":"114677","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":"13023"},{"ID":"13026","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:37","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:37","post_content":"Shrub or small tree up to 6 m in height. Youngest shoots with tomentum of stellate hairs rusty in colour. Leaves ovate-elliptic, acute apex, densely crenulate, 10-12.7 cm long, c. <\/em>5 cm wide, densely covered with small stellate hairs on the underside; petioles, pedicels and the outer surface of the calyx are densely covered with a rusty coloured stellate tomentum. Flowers up to 3.8-5 cm in diameter, in groups of 3, central flower opens first. Corolla with lanceolate petals, shorter than the calyx. Calyx with oblong-lanceolate sepals. Fruits fleshy, subglobose, glabrous, 1-1.2 cm wide, with 4 lobules, each 5-6 mm wide. 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Leaves 1-6 \u00d7 0.8-4 cm, very variable in size and shape, ovate-lanceolate to ovate or broadly elliptic; serrated margin, cordate or rounded base, glabrous on the upper side, minutely stellate-pilose on the underside. Inflorescences opposite the leaves, solitary. Flowers 1.5 cm in diameter, in umbellate cymes of 2-3 flowers. Peduncle 2-25 mm long. Pedicel 2-10 mm long. Sepals 6-7 \u00d7 2.5 mm, elliptical. Petals 5-7 mm, white, elliptical, with nectary at the base. Stamens numerous. Fruit in drupe, with 2-4 lobules, each 4 \u00d7 6 mm, subglobose, red at maturity, glabrous, shiny.","post_title":"Grewia tembensis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"grewia-tembensis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-10-25 10:19:54","post_modified_gmt":"2021-10-25 10:19:54","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/grewia-tembensis\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5143","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13029","trid":"114679","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":"13029"},{"ID":"13020","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:36","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:36","post_content":"Subtropical shrub up to 6 m in height, irregular in shape, often very tortuous, even creeping, due to the harsh edaphic-climatic conditions in which it lives. Stems and old branches with greyish-brown bark; younger branches greenish. Leaves (1.5-4.5 \u00d7 1.3-3.5 cm), \u00b1 suborbicular; on the same plant there may be broadly ovate or obovate leaves, sometimes slightly wider than long; tip acute or very rounded, slightly undulate, dentate margin, glabrescent, deep green on the upper side and slightly lighter on the underside. Petiole 4-10 mm. Flowers solitary or in pairs. Calyx with 5 sepals oblong, acute, coriaceous, white. Corolla with 5 oblong petals, with emarginate apex, slightly less coriaceous than the calyx, white, shorter than the sepals. Stamens numerous, anthers pale yellow. Ovary with 2 locules, with 4 ovules in each one; stigma with 4 wide lobules. Fruit drupaceous, with 1-4 lobules (usually 2), 3-6 mm in diameter, subglobose, orange.","post_title":"Grewia tenax","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"grewia-tenax","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-10-25 10:26:43","post_modified_gmt":"2021-10-25 10:26:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":"0","guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/grewia-tenax\/","menu_order":"0","post_type":"species","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","translation_id":"5134","element_type":"post_species","element_id":"13020","trid":"114676","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":"13020"},{"ID":"13017","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 10:08:36","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 10:08:36","post_content":"Shrub 2-3 m in height or, rarely, a tree up to 5 m. 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Small trees or shrubs, rarely prostrate. Genus with about 320 species of tropical distribution through Africa, Asia and Australia. In North Africa it is represented by up to 5 species of shrubby nature. 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Genus with about 240 species, distributed throughout the tropical and temperate regions. In North Africa it is represented by 3 shrub species, to which we should add H. trionium<\/em> L., a Mediterranean plant with herbaceous stems. 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Genus composed of about 10 species, mainly of Mediterranean distribution. In North Africa 3 species can be considered shrubby, with alternate leaves, \u00b1 divided, petiolate. <\/p>","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"lavatera-l-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:01:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/lavatera-l-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11314},"11311":{"short_name":"Malva","name_html":"Malva<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Iamonico, D. 2014. Lavatera stenopetala<\/em> subsp. plazzae<\/em> comb. et stat. nov. (Malvaceae), endemic taxon from north-western Sardinia (Italy). Plant ecology <\/em>147 (2): 293-298.\r\n\r\nRay, M.F. 1995. Systematics of Lavatera<\/em> and Malva<\/em> (Malvaceae, Malveae) - a new perspective- Pl. <\/em>Syst. Evol.<\/em> 198: 29-53.","custom_author":"A.F. Carrillo.","family":{"ID":"10908","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:18","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:18","post_content":"Family composed of 243 genera and some 4,225 species of cosmopolitan distribution. In North Africa, in terms of \u00b1 woody taxa, it is represented by 12 genera with tree, shrub and herbaceous species, with stems somewhat lignified. Corchorus <\/strong>L., could also be added, with the species C. depressus<\/strong> (L.) Stocks [Antichorus depressus<\/em> L., C. antichorus<\/em> (L.) 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Trunk generally well defined, rarely branched from the base, with greyish bark, highly fissured in older specimens. Branches open, extended-upright, sometimes very upright, almost perpendicular, interlacing; older branches with greyish bark, rugose, glabrous, with numerous scars left by fallen leaves; younger branches whitish because they are covered with a dense tomentum of small white hairs. Leaves (0.8-7 \u00d7 1-8 cm) suborbicular, with 3-5(7) lobes from rounded to subacute, which may be \u00b1 pronounced (sometimes there are almost entire leaves), green and with tomentum of whitish and stellate hairs on both sides; leaf blade flat, undulate or folded, with margin from crenate to subentire, and from cordate to subtruncate at the base. Petiole shorter than the leaf. Solitary flowers, rarely in pairs, axillary, with the peduncle as long as or longer than the petiole of the leaf on whose axil they are borne. 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