Prunus carduchorum (Persian: چغالک) is a rare species of wild almond native to Turkey, Iraq and Iran, near where the three countries meet. It is a subspinescent shrub 0.5-1.2 m tall. A native of the Eastern Anatolian montane steppe ecoregion,[4] it prefers to grow at 1500 to 3000 m above sea level on marl slopes, in degraded oak forests.[3] Genetically it groups with other scrubby almonds from the region.[5] Based on morphology it was thought to yield Prunus × pabotii when crossed with Prunus haussknechtii.[6]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Prunus |
| Subgenus: | Prunus subg. Amygdalus |
| Species: | P. carduchorum
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Etymology
editThe specific epithet, carduchorum, means "of the Carduchi, the wild tribesman of Kurdistan who so severely harried Xenophon and the Ten Thousand".[7]
References
edit- ^ Kew Bulletin. Kew, England 19:229. 1965
- ^ Beih. Bot. Centralb. 58B. 257. 1938
- ^ a b Yazbek, Mariana Mostafa (February 2010). Systematics of Prunus Subgenus Amygdalus: Monograph and Phylogeny (PDF) (PhD). Cornell University. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
These [previously described subspecies] do not appear to have any taxonomic importance...
- ^ Grace, Andrew (29 September 2010). Introductory Biogeography to Bees of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East (PDF). Sussex, United Kingdom: Bexhill Museum. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-9537091-9-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ Vafadar, Mahnaz; Kazempour Osaloo, Shahrokh; Attar, Farideh (31 March 2014). "Molecular phylogeny of the genus Amygdalus (Rosaceae) based on nrDNA ITS and cpDNA trnS-trnG sequences". Turkish Journal of Botany. 38 (3): 439–452. doi:10.3906/bot-1303-46. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ^ Browicz, Kazimriez; Zohary, Daniel (June 1996). "The genus Amygdalus L. (Rosaceae): Species relationships, distribution and evolution under domestication". Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 43 (3): 229–247. doi:10.1007/BF00123275. S2CID 28535529.
- ^ Stearn, W.T. (2008) Botanical Latin p. 208, Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-627-9