Figure 5 from Brullo et al. (2022) showing (A) a female near the type locality on Stromboli bearing ripe strobili; (B) a male on Strombolicchio; (C) twigs with male cones; (D) twigs with female cones; (E) detail of a ripe strobilus; and (F) twigs with ripe strobili (photos by S. Cambria).
Ephedra strongylensis
Original publication unavailable at this time. No further information appears to have been published.
Similar to Ephedra aurea, but has differences regarding the size and shape of twigs, leaves, male and female cones, ovules, seeds, fruiting strobili and pollen grains (Brullo et al. 2022).
Italy: Sicily, Aeolian Islands of Stromboli and Strombolicchio (Brullo et al. 2022).
No data as of 2023.03.03.
Brullo, Salvatore, Cristian Brullo, Salvatore Cambria, Vincenzo Ilardi, Giuseppe Siracusa, Pietro Minissale, and Gianpietro Giusso Del Galdo. 2022. Ephedra strongylensis (Ephedraceae), a new species from Aeolian islands (Sicily). Phytotaxa 576(3):250-264.
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