Tetraena dumosa (Boiss.) Beier & Thulin is a plant in the Zygophyllaceae family, order Zygophyllales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Tetraena dumosa (Boiss.) Beier & Thulin

Tetraena dumosa (Boiss.) Beier & Thulin

Tetraena dumosa is a bushy bean-caper flowering shrub native to parts of North Africa and the Levant.

Genus
Tetraena
Order
Zygophyllales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Tetraena dumosa (Boiss.) Beier & Thulin

Tetraena dumosa (Boiss.) Beier & Thulin, previously classified as Zygophyllum dumosum and commonly called the bushy bean-caper, is a flowering plant species belonging to the family Zygophyllaceae. It is native to Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Levant, and it is a dominant shrub in the highlands of the Negev Desert.

Photo: (c) Ron Frumkin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ron Frumkin · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Zygophyllales Zygophyllaceae Tetraena

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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