Paliurus spina-christi, Miller
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1. P. spina-christi Miller View in CoL , Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768)
(P. australis Gaertner ).
Nearly glabrous, much-branched shrub up to c. 3 m. Twigs flexuous, puberulent when young. Leaves 2-4 cm, alternate and distichous, ovate, crenate-serrate, shortly petiolate. Flowers in small, axillary, shortly pedunculate cymes. Fruit 18-30 mm in diameter; wing undulate. Dry slopes; also often usedfor hedges.
Mediterranean region {except the islands), Balkan peninsula and Black Sea coast. Al Bu Ga Gr Hs It Ju Rm Rs (K) Tu [Co Hu].
P. microcarpus Wilmott , Jour. Bot. {London) 56: 145 (1917), is a variant from N. Greece (Makedhonia) with the fruit 9-10 mm in diameter and very narrowly winged.
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Paliurus spina-christi
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
P. spina-christi
| Miller 1768: 8 |