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Spergularia bocconei (Scheele) Asch. & Graebn.

Synonyms

Alsine atheniensis, Alsine bocconei, Corion atheniense, Spergula bocconei, Spergula jallui, Spergularia atheniensis, Spergularia bocconi

Common names

Boccone's sandspurry

Extract from Wikipedia article

Spergularia bocconei, Boccone's sandspurry, Greek sea-spurrey or Boccone's sea-spurrey is a species of the Spergularia genus, in the Caryophyllaceae family. It is named after the Sicilian botanist Paolo Boccone. Scheele first published it as Alsine bocconi in 1843. It was transferred to the genus Spergularia by Graebner in 1919. Pedersen placed the species in genus Spergula in 1984.

Boccone's sandspurry (Spergularia bocconei)(?) in area of Jabal Al Jassasiya, on north-eastern coast. Qatar, January 29, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Flowers and fruits of Boccone's sandspurry (Spergularia bocconei)(?) in area of Jabal Al Jassasiya, on north-eastern coast. Qatar, January 29, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Boccone's sandspurry (Spergularia bocconei)(?) on white background in area of Jabal Al Jassasiya, on north-eastern coast. Qatar, January 29, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Spergularia bocconei, Wikipedia article
• Spergularia bocconei from www.theplantlist.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

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• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.