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Schouwia
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Schouwia

Schouwia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It only contains one known species, Schouwia purpurea (Forssk.) Schweinf.

Its native range is Sahara and Sahel to the Arabian Peninsula (Palestine and Saudi Arabia). It is found in the African countries of Algeria, Burkina, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Schouwia purpurea

speciesSchouwia purpurea

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Schouwia in Drei Monate in der libyschen Wüste

Drei Monate in der libyschen Wüste

Gerhard Rohlfs · 1875 · p.431

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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 473785.