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  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. ›Acanthus Family
  7. ›Acanthoideae
  8. ›Acantheae
  9. ›Acanthinae
  10. ›Blepharis
Blepharis dhofarensis
Plate 1 of 2. Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz (CC BY-SA 4.0) · via Wikimedia
IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Blepharis dhofarensis

Blepharis dhofarensis is a species of plant in the Acanthaceae family. It is a shrub that grows to around 5m tall and is found in Oman and Yemen. Blepharis dhofarensis grows on wet escarpment woodlands and it prefers dense thickets on steep slopes. It is threatened by habitat loss. Recent molecular work has placed it in the genus Acanthus instead of Blepharis.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 189836.