Wild Plants of Malta - Plant Family Index

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Index of Plant Families (4 families in this page)

Araucaria

Cypress

Joint-Pine

Pine

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ARAUCARIACEAE Henkel & W. Hochstetter ( Araucaria Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Description text for this family is under progress and unavailable at the moment ...

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Common Name

Maltese Name

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Araucaria bidwillii

(Molina) K. Koch

Main Synonym :

No synonyms for this species

Bunya Pine

Awrikarja Ta' Bidwill

Mar-Jun

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Araucaria heterophylla

(Salisbury) Franco

Main Synonym :

Araucaria excelsa

Norfolk Island Pine

Awrikarja Kbira

All year

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CUPRESSACEAE Barlett ( Cypress Family )				Subfamalies: Cunninghamhioideae; Taiwanioideae; Athrotaxidoideae; Sequoioideae; Taxodioideae; Callitroideae; Cupressoideae Family Description: Monoecious or dioecious; resiniferous trees or shrubs with opposite or whorled, usually scale-like, leaves. Male and female cones made up of opposite or whorled scales. Scales of male cones (microsporophylls) bearing 3-5 pollen-sacs on the lower surface. Scales of female cones (megasporophylls) bearing 2 to many erect ovules on the upper surface, and completely adnate to the subtending bract. Fruit a more or less woody cone, or the scales becoming fleshy and the fruit berry-like, indehiscent. Seeds winged or not.

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Cupressus arizonica

Greene.

Main Synonym :

Cupressus glabra

Arizona Cypress,
Smooth Cypress

Ċipress Ta' Arizona

All year

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Cupressus sempervirens

Main Synonym :

Cupressus pyramidalis

Italian Cypress,
Mediterranean Cypress

Ċipress,
Ċipress Kannella

All year

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Juniperus phoenicea

Main Synonym :

No synonyms for this species

Phoenician Juniper

Ġnibru,
Ġniepru

All year

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Tetraclinis articulata

(Vahl) Masters

Main Synonym :

Thuja articulata

Sandarac Gum Tree,
Mediterranean Alerce,
Arar Tree

Siġra Tal-Għargħar,
Għargħar

All year

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Thuja orientalis

Main Synonym :

Platyclados orientalis

Thuya

Maltese Name Not Known

All year

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EPHEDRACEAE Dumortier ( Joint-Pine Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Shrubs with opposite or verticillate leaves, usually reduced to short, more or less coalescent sheaths, 1-2(-3) mm; not resiniferous. Inflorescences axillary; strobili sessile or on short shoots. Fruit a globose or ovoid syncarp, the bracts fleshy at maturity, red, or rarely yellow.

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Ephedra fragilis

Desfontaines

Main Synonym :

No synonyms for this species

Joint-Pine,
Shrubby Horse-tail,
Fragile Joint Pine

Efedra

Mar-Apr

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PINACEAE Lindl. ( Pine Family )				Subfamalies: Pinoideae; Piceoideae; Laricoideae; Abietoideae Family Description: Monoecious; resiniferous trees, rarely shrubs, with spirally arranged leaves. Flowers (cones) made up of numerous spirally arranged scales. Scales of male cones (microsporophylls) bearing 2 pollen-sacs on the lower surface. Scales of female cones (megasporophylls) made up of 2 parts - an upper ovuliferous scale (conescale) bearing 2 ovules on the upper surface, and a lower, subtending scale (bract). Fruit a usually woody cone. Seeds usually winged.