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Published In: Hannoverisches Magazin 21: 287. 1783. (Hannover. Mag.) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 8/25/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project data     (Last Modified On 7/19/2018)
Nomenclature:

1. Equisetum telmateia Ehrn., Hannover. Mag. 21: 287 (1783); Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 741 (1884). Equisetum maximum auct. non Lam., Fl. Fr. 1: 7 (1778). Type: D. H. Hoppe 0000572 (MW). [Plate 1]

Common name: Great Horsetail; שבטבט גדול.
Habitat:

Shady river banks and swamps, on both heavy and sandy soils. Acco Plain, Philistean Plain, Upper Galilee, Hula Plain, Golan, [Mt. Hermon]. Rather rare, Endangered.

Area distribution: Euro-Siberian, Mediterranean and Irano-Turanian.
Notes:

A rare plant on the verge of extinction owing to the drainage of swamps and the expansion of agriculture and urban areas. Rubin (Soreq) swamp in the Philistean Plain is the southernmost post of its distribution area.


 

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Perennial, 60-100 cm. Rhizome creeping, black, bearing tubercles. Sterile stems

about 1 cm. in diam., branching, 20-40-ridged, white, their sheaths 1.5-3 cm, ending in subulate teeth of same number as ridges; lateral branches numerous, spreading to erect, simple, thin, 4-5-angled, green, with short 4-toothed sheaths; fertile stems 20-40 cm, simple, hollow, pale brown; sheaths close together,  with about 30 subulate teeth. Spike 5-15 x 1-2 cm. April-July.

 
 
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