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Paronychia capitata Lam.

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Nomenclature:

4. Paronychia capitata (L.) Lam., Fl. Franc. 3: 229 (1779). Illecebrum capitatum L., Sp. Pl. 207 (1753). Type: S. Europe, Herb. Linn. no. 290.17 (LINN).Type: S. Europe, Herb. Linn. no. 290 (LINN). [185b]

Common name:

אלמות הקרקפות

Habitat:

Bathas and steppes, rock crevices. Mt. Gilboa, Samaria, Shefela, Judean Mts., Samarian and Judean Deserts, N. Negev, Negev Highlands, Upper Jordan Vallley, (Golan?), Gilead, Edom.

Area distribution:

Mainly Mediterranean.

Notes:

The records in Post (1932) on P. capitata (L.) Lam., Fl. Fr. 3: 229 (1778) from Palestine have been once considered doubtful but this taxon has been later identified from Palestine and described here. The relations between this species and Paronychia macrosepala Boiss. and Paronychia sinaica require further studies.

Paronychia jordanica Chaudhri [Meded. Bot.Mus. Herb. Rijks Univ. Utrecht 285: 280 (1968)], based on a specimen from Nazareth (J. Bornmuller 226) and supposedly endemic to the Flora Palaestina, is hardly distinguishable from P. capitata and thus included in the latter.