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Juniperus communis L. Juniperus sabina L. Cupressaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

Part of the book series: European Ethnobotany ((EUROETH))

Synonyms

Juniperus sabina L.; Sabina officinalis Garcke

Local Names

Azerbaijan: Juniperus sabina: Каzак аrdıcı; Georgia: Juniperus sp. - ghvia, - archan (Ingiloian), - odaghaji (Ach’arian), - t’uia (Kartlian), - ghvio (Kiziquian), - ch’q’eri (Svanetian), - ch’q’eru (Svanetian), - tzqhero (Svanetian) (Makashvili 1991); English: Juniper.

Botany and Ecology

Trailing shrubs, diocecious. Branches partly decumbent, partly ascending. Leaves strongly odoriferous; acicular leaves lance-linear, spiny-pointed; imbricated leaves lustruous, rhombic to rhombic-lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse, with a keel and an oval gland on the back. Inflorescence composed of ovaloid aments, with round scales, pale yellow. Fruits solitary, profuse, small, 6–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide, rounded-ovate, brownish, pruinose, with 4–6 scales; seeds mostly 2, though occasionally 1, 3, 4, or 6, ovoid, prominently keeled below. Growing on wind-blown sand, chalk, rocks, exposed southern slopes and stony slopes of hills and low...

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  1. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botanikuri St. 1, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  2. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba P. Mehdiyeva & Valida M. Alizade

  3. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave., 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  4. Instituto de EcologĂ­a-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  5. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2017). Juniperus communis L. Juniperus sabina L. Cupressaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_129

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