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Published In: Feddes Repertorium 81(2–3): 108. 1978. (Feddes Repert.) Name publication detail
 

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Nomenclature:

5. Bassia scoparia (L.) A. J. Scott, Feddes Repert. 89: 108 (1978). Chenopodium scoparium L., Sp. Pl. 221 (1753). Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad., Neues J. Bot. 3: 85 (1809); Boiss., Fl. Orient. Orient. 4: 925 (1879). Lectotype: Herb. Linn. 313.20 (LINN). [Plate 221a] 

Common name:

 Summer Cypress; קוכית המכבד.

Habitat:

Hab.: Occasinal in disturbed ground, escaped from cultivation. The records refer to the cultivated form of B. scoparia, with very bushy habit and linear leaves (usually named as Kochia scoparia f. trichophylla Schinz & Thell.). Acco Plain, Sharon Plain, Esdraelon Plain, Judean Mts., Hula Plain, Upper Jordan Valley, Bet Shean Valley. Rare. New to the Flora Palaestina (Danin, Distribution Atlas, 2004).  

Area distribution:

 Central Asia; the type variety is now subcosmopolitan.


 

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Annual, 20-150 cm.. Stems erect, much branched. Leaves 1-5 cm., alternate, lanceolate to oblong, flat, acute, hairy or only ciliate, 3-nerved. Inflorescences elongate, spike-like. Flowers 1-2 in the axils of bracts. Fruiting perianth 3-4 mm., glabrous or ciliate only, segments ovate-obtuse, wings very short or reduced to tubercles. Seeds 1.5-2 mm., ovate. Fl. June-September.

 
 
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