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Rhamnus alaternus - Branch with fruits - Click to enlarge!

Branch with fruits; Baiona, Alentejo, Portugal; 8/2007 © Jörn Germer

Rhamnus alaternus - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Baiona, Alentejo, Portugal; 8/2007 © Jörn Germer

Rhamnus alaternus - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Baiona, Alentejo, Portugal; 8/2007 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 752
Date of entry: 18.03.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Italian buckthorn

German: Immergrüner Kreuzdorn

Portuguese: Aderno-bravo

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Rhamnales (26)

        Family: Rhamnaceae (9)(family description)

          Genus: Rhamnus (4)

            Epithet: alaternus L. (1)

Synonym: Alaternus glabra Mill.

alaternus => probably of Etruscan origin, in lat. used for Rhamnus alaternus

glabra => without hair, smooth, bald, bare

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: green, yellow

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