| Accepted name: |
Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants |
| Synonym(s): |
-Chenopodium botrys L.
-Teloxys botrys (L.) W.A.Weber
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| English names: |
Jerusalem-oak
Feather Geranium
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| French names: |
Chénopode botrys
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Chenopodiaceae
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| OPL Code: |
HDYSBO
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
A |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
- |
| Distribution: |
-
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Microhabitat: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
In warmer regions of Europe and elsewhere (e.g. Cuba) cultivated as a medicinal plant (high content of essential oils). In Germany still in the 19th cent. frequently cultivated against moths and as a medicinal plant. Larger plantations in Kazakhstan(1). |
| Key Characters: |
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