Rhanterium

Rhanterium
Rhanterium epapposum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Inuleae[1]
Genus: Rhanterium
Desf.
Type species
Rhanterium suaveolens
Desf.

Rhanterium is a genus of dwarf-shrubs in the plougman's-spikenard tribe within the daisy family growing in the deserts of the Middle East and northern Africa.[2][3][4]

Species[1][5][6]
  1. Rhanterium adpressum Coss. & Durieu - Morocco, Algeria
  2. Rhanterium epapposum Oliv. - Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan
  3. Rhanterium suaveolens Desf. - Algeria, Libya, Tunisia[7]

References

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