| Gymnosporia senegalensis (Lam.) Loes. |
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| Family : CELASTRACEAE |
| Protologue : Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(5): 207 (1892); Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 541 (1893) |
| Information on the genus : Gymnosporia |
| Basionym : Celastrus senegalensis Lam. |
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Status
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| Status for MA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for NA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Celastrus senegalensis Lam. (1785) |
| Maytenus senegalensis (Lam.) Exell (1952) |
| Maytenus senegalensis (Lam.) Exell subsp. senegalensis |
| Gymnosporia senegalensis (Lam.) Loes. var. senegalensis |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Celastrus emarginata Rich. |
| =Gymnosporia crenulata Engl. (1889) (SA = accepted; TA = rejected) |
| =Gymnosporia saharae (Batt.) Loes. (1892) |
| =Celastrus saharae Batt. (1900) |
| =Maytenus baumii (Loes.) Exell & Mendonça |
| =Gymnosporia baumii Loes. (1903) |
| =Gymnosporia eremoecusa Loes. (1908) |
| =Gymnosporia intermedia Chiov. (1911) |
| =Gymnosporia senegalensis var. inermis (A. Rich.) Loes. |
| =Celastrus senegalensis var. inermis A. Rich. (1847) |
| =Gymnosporia senegalensis var. angustifolia Engl. & Loes. |
| =Gymnosporia senegalensis var. spinosa Engl. ex Loes. (1893) |
| =Gymnosporia dinteri Loes. (1903) |
| =Gymnosporia eminiana Loes. (1893) |
| =Gymnosporia antunesii Loes. (1900) |
| =Gymnosporia benguelensis Loes. (1900) |
| =Gymnosporia montana (Roth) Benth. |
| =Catha montana (Roth) G. Don |
| =Celastrus montanus Roth (1821) |
| =Celastrus coriaceus Guill. & Perr. |
| =Gymnosporia coriacea (Guill. & Perr.) Eggeling |
| =Catha senegalensis (Lam.) G. Don |
| =Gymnosporia senegalensis f. minor Loes. |
| =Gymnosporia senegalensis var. djalonensis Aubrév. |
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| Taxon infra-specific |
| Gymnosporia senegalensis var. europaea (Boiss.) Maire (1924) |
| Gymnosporia senegalensis (Lam.) Loes. var. senegalensis |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Shrublet, shrub or tree, semi-deciduous, usually 2-6 m tall but sometimes creeping 0,15-15 m; bark light grey, smooth; young branchlets markedly reddish, sometimes with straight slender spines to 7 cm long;[…] |
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see more in the book |
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| Ecology : |
Wide variety of habitats: open woodland, wooded grassland; grassland; bushland; often on termite mounds and in thickets; scrub; riverine fringe thicket; margins of vleis; coastal dune scrub; association with Acacia seyal,[…] |
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0-2440 m alt. Important medicinal plant. |
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Canary Isl. (Lanzarote, Fuerteventura: subsp. europaea?); N & S Morocco (N: near Jebha and El Hoceïma Natl. Park, fide A. Benabid, Flore & écosystèmes du Maroc: 39-40, 2000), Algeria and SE Iberian Peninsula: […] |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:177, 327 (2012)
- Darbyshire, I. Kordofami, M. & al. (2015). The plants of Sudan and South Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing
- César J. & C. Chatelain (2019). Flore illustrée du Tchad. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève, Coopération Suisse & Univ. N'Djaména
Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Bothalia 2: 320-321 (1927).
- Engler, H.G.A. & K. A. E. Prantl (1942). Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, ed. 2 2[20b]: 87-158
- Bothalia 7[2]: 381-386 (1960).
Bibliography for North Africa :
- Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 541 (1893)
- Cat. Pl. Maroc 2: 474 (1932).
  - SAUVAGE, Ch. (1961). Flore des subéraies marocaines. Trav. Inst. Sci. Chérifien, Sér. Bot. 22: 123
- Fl. Algérie [Quézel & Santa] 2: 614 (1963).
- OZENDA, P. (1983). Flore et végétation du Sahara. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
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