Final stop at the end of this day. From the road, the hills looked quite promising, and indeed they yielded some nice finds! I was both surprised and delighted by flowering Ephedra, sole representative in Europe of the Gnetophta, one of the four main groups of the Gymnosperms. |
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| Ephedra major |
| Synonyms | : | Ephedra nebrodensis Ephedra scoparia Ephedra villarsii |
| English | : | large sea grape |
| Deutsch | : | großes Meerträubel, sizilianisches Meerträubchen, sizilianisches Meerträubel |
| Français | : | grand éphèdre, grande uvette, éphèdre des Monts Nébrodes |
| Italiano | : | efedra grande, efedra maggiore, efedra nebrodense |
| Español | : | belcho fino, efedra fina, escobizo |
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| Toninia tristis |
| Deutsch | : | Dunkle Blasenkruste |
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| A dark lichen hidden is dried moss that looked so dark I thought is was burned - but it wasn't. | ||
| Placocarpus schaereri |
| Deutsch | : | Mittelmeer-Steinschuppe |
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