Forsskaolea tenacissima
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Forsskaolea tenacissima is a member of the non-stinging nettles genus Forsskaolea and is in the same family as the stinging kind, Urticaceae. Described as "looking like a tough character that does not want or need a caress",[5] F. tenacissima makes its home where not many plant species survive, in stony soils, road edges, in the gravel wadi[5] and "in the rock crevices and water-receiving depressions" above the stone pavements of the Hamadas.[6]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Urticaceae |
Genus: | Forsskaolea |
Species: | F. tenacissima |
Binomial name | |
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Synonyms | |
Forskohlea tenacissima[2] |
Forsskaolea tenacissima was named in mourning of a student of Carl Linnaeus, a Swede named Peter Forsskål, who died while gathering botanical and zoological specimens from the Arabia Felix. Linnaeus named this plant Forsskaolea tenacissima because the plant was as stubborn and persistent as the student had been.[7]