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Paliurus spina-christi Mill.

 

 

Flora Europaea

mesophanerophyte, Ph, 2n=24, tetraploid

xeric forest-steppe shrub

Mediterranean-west Pontic-Tauro-Caucasian-Anatolian

Paliureto-Carpinion orientalis, Prunetalia

R3123-3132 habitats

 

 

 

 

This shrub is common only in Banat Mountains and Dobrudja in the dense sub-Mediterranean thickets named 'shibljak' and 'hrastalak' respectively. Very rare and local elsewhere (Zarand Mountains).

Cotu Vaii, Constanta county, 7th of August 2006

dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.com

Constanta county, May 2010.

dr. Marius Fagaras, marius_fagaras@yahoo.com

 

 

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