Fibigia clypeata

Fibigia clypeata is an Asian species of flowering plant of the genus Fibigia in the family Brassicaceae. It is distributed throughout Greece, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Turkey, where it flowers between February and April.[2][3][4]

Fibigia clypeata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Fibigia
Species:	F. clypeata
Binomial name
Fibigia clypeata (L.) Medik.
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy Adyseton petalodes G.Don Alyssum cheiranthifolium Willd. Alyssum clypeatum L. Draba clypeata (L.) Lam. Farsetia cheiranthifolia (Willd.) Desv. Farsetia clypeata (L.) R.Br. Farsetia eriocarpa Boiss. Farsetia obovata Boiss. & Kotschy Farsetia rostrata Schenk Fibigia eriocarpa Boiss. Fibigia obovata Boiss. Fibigia rostrata (Schenk) Boiss. Lunaria canescens Willd. Lunaria clypeata (L.) All.

This plant is found in abundance and is native to the Shouf Biosphere Reserve in Lebanon.[5] Its common Arabic name is بتلة كالمرساة. Its common English name is False-gypsophila ankyropetalum. Its common French name is Ankyropetale fausse- gypsophylle.[6]

It is a drought-tolerant perennial suitable for xeriscaping.[7]

Its current name is Fibigia clypeata subsp. eriocarpa (DC. ,Greuter, 2012). Its homotypic synonyms are Farsetia eriocarpa (DC., 1821) and Fibigia Eriocarpa (DC., Boiss., 1867).[8]

Fibigia Eriocarpa

References

1. The Plant List, Fibigia clypeata (L.) Medik.
2. Boissier, Pierre Edmond 1867. Flora Orientalis 1: 258 as Fibigia obovata.
3. Schenk, Joseph August 1840. Plantarum species...Aegyptum, Arabiam et Syriam...G.H. Schubert 42
4. "Fibigia Eriocarpa".
5. "Plants of the Shouf Biosphere".
6. "Fibigia Eriocarpa".
7. "Fibigia Eriocarpa".
8. "NCBI".