Gymnosporia senegalensis

Gymnosporia senegalensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Celastrales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Celastrales

Familia: Celastraceae
Genus: Gymnosporia
Species: Gymnosporia senegalensis
Varietas: G. s. var. europaea

Name

Gymnosporia senegalensis (Lam.) Loes. in H. G. A. Engler & K. A. E. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(5):207. 1892

Synonyms

• Catha decolor (Delile) Webb
• Catha senegalensis (Lam.) G.Don
• Catha senegalensis Webb
• Celastrus decolor Delile
• Celastrus obovatus Hochst. ex Oliv.
• Celastrus phyllacanthus L'Hér.
• Celastrus senegalensis Lam.
• Gymnosporia crenulata Engl.
• Gymnosporia dinteri Loes.
• Gymnosporia eminiana Loes.
• Gymnosporia eremoecusa Loes.
• Gymnosporia febrifuga Chiov.
• Maytenus senegalensis (Lam.) Exell

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria (Tadmayt, Tefedest, Tassili n'Ajjer, Tibesti, Adrar des Iforhas, Erg Djemel), Chad, Niger, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Uganda, D.R. Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, South Africa (Limpopo, Mpulamanga, KwaZulu-Natal), Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, N-Madagascar, Seychelles (Aldabra), Egypt (Jbel Elba) Continental: Asie Iran (E-Iran), Saudi Arabia (C-Saudi Arabia, NE-Saudi Arabia, Hejaz, Asir), Yemen (Aden Desert, SE-Yemen: coastal Hadhramaut, Tihama, W-Yemen), Afghanistan (Afghanistan (Griffith)), Oman, Pakistan (Karachi, Sind, Baluchistan, Waziristan), India (Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu), Bangladesh References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Loesener, L.E.T. in H.G.A. Engler & K.A.E. Prantl, 1892. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(5):207.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2019. Gymnosporia senegalensis. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 02. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Gymnosporia senegalensis in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 02. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Gymnosporia senegalensis. Published online. Accessed: October 02 2019.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Gymnosporia senegalensis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 02 October 2019.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Gymnosporia senegalensis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

Vernacular names

English: Red Spike-thorn

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