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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Fibigia |
| Species: | F. clypeata
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Synonymy
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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]
References
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- ^ The Plant List, Fibigia clypeata (L.) Medik.
- ^ Boissier, Pierre Edmond 1867. Flora Orientalis 1: 258 as Fibigia obovata.
- ^ Schenk, Joseph August 1840. Plantarum species...Aegyptum, Arabiam et Syriam...G.H. Schubert 42
- ^ "Fibigia Eriocarpa".
- ^ "Plants of the Shouf Biosphere".
- ^ "Fibigia Eriocarpa".
- ^ "Fibigia Eriocarpa".
- ^ "NCBI".
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