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Published In: Illustrationes Plantarum Orientalium 1: , t. 98. (Ill. Pl. Orient.) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/27/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project data     (Last Modified On 2/22/2012)
Nomenclature:

  4. Aristolochia bottae Jaub. & Spach, Ill. Pl. Or. 1: 173, t. 98 (1844). Aristolochia maurorum L. var. latifolia Boiss., Fl. Orient. 4: 1080 (1879). Type: [Turkey] in Armenia australiori, prope hodiernum urb em Diarbekir, Botta (P). [Plate 51]

Common name:

Moorish Birthwort; ספלול השדה

Habitat:

Batha, garigue, weedy in abandoned fields and grasslands, preferably on heavy soils. Philistean Plain, Upper and Lower Galilee, Esdraelon Plain, Samaria, Shefela, Judean Mts., N. & W. Negev, Hula Plain, Upper Jordan Valley, Samarian Desert, Golan, Gilead, Ammon.

Area distribution:

E. Mediterranean and W. Irano-Turanian.

Notes:

     There are forms intergrading in their width of leaves.

     Roots sometimes have been used in folk medicine for healing wounds.

  


 

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     Perennial, hirtellous-puberulent, 30-60 cm. Stems more or less erect, simple or branched, not climbing. Leaves 2.5-9 (-10) x 1.5-5 (-6) cm., ovate-oblong to lanceolate-triangular, hastate-auriculate at base with rather oblong or rounded auricles and a deep sinus, tapering towards the more or less acute apex; petiole much shorter than blade. Bracts small, leaf-like. Pedicels about as long as flowers, slender, deflexed. Flowers 4-6 cm., solitary. Perianth rusty-red with yellow spots; tube almost glabrous, strongly incurved, gradually broadening towards apex, with ovate-oblong limb hirtellous on upper spotted surface, cordate and auriculate at base. Capsule 4-6 cm., obovoid-oblong. Fl. March-May.

 
 

 

 
 
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