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Drosanthemum hispidum (Hairy Dewflower) |
Drosanthemum hispidum (AIZOOACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands at or after year 2000. |
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| Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Drosanthemum hispidum(L.) Schwantes
Published in Z. Sukkulentenk. 3: 29 (1927) | Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
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Plant Family : | Aizooaceae
Rudolphi (The Fig-Marigold Family)
16 species from the Aizooaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Hairy Dewflower, Miniature Pigs Face | Maltese name(s) : | Maltese name not known | Status for Malta : | Introduced species for horticulture (flowering plants) or agriculture (herbs or fruiting trees) usually within the last 30-150 years and persist for long after their original location or site is abandoned. They do not widespread but usually remain as a single tree or a very localised population. | Frequency : | Very Common Common Frequent
Scarce
Rare Very rare Extinct
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Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: CHAMEOPHYTE (dwarf or small shrubs)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon | Legal Protection [link]: | Not Protected by Law (LN200/2011 or LN311/2006) | Red List (1989) : | Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands | Flowering Time : | Apr-Oct | Colour of Flowers: | Violet | Remarks : | The hispid-pubescent stems and the trailing habitat are very distinctive for the species. Garden escape creeping and mat forming Mesemb with small finger-shaped leaves covered by tiny water cells and wood stepms with a hispid (bristly) indumentum. |
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| Species Description and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Cultivated for ornament, and locally naturalized on coasts of W. Mediterranean region. |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Degraded areas or wasteground usually from dumped cultivated material, or abandoned cultivation |
Botanical Description: |
Stems erect or trailing, hispid, the lower branches sometimes rooting at the nodes. Leaves 1.2-3 cm, tuberculate-papillose, often reddish. Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together, 2.5-3 cm in diameter; petals purple. |
Distributional range: |
West Mediterranean |
Native region outside Europe: |
(South Africa, Madagascar) |
Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):
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Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
Introduced in the Balaeric Islands, Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia) |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
[nBl Bl(M) Ca(T) nHs nIt] |
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