Ephedra distachya is a shrub in the family Ephedraceae that stands about 25 cm to 50 cm high. The shrub grows in many parts of the world, including southern and central Europe and western and central Asia.[2][3] Its local names include somlatha.[clarification needed][citation needed] Ephedra distachya lives on grey dunes which are fixed and stable sand dunes that are covered in continuous vegetation.
^"Ephedra distachya". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
^ abKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^Altervista Flora Italiana, Efedra distachia, Ephedra distachya L.
Ephedradistachya is a shrub in the family Ephedraceae that stands about 25 cm to 50 cm high. The shrub grows in many parts of the world, including southern...
genera: Gnetum (family Gnetaceae), Welwitschia (family Welwitschiaceae), and Ephedra (family Ephedraceae). The earliest unambiguous records of the group date...
Crete, Turkey and Israel. The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ephedradistachya. Fauna Europaea Host-plants of the larvae of diamond-back moths (Plutellidae)...
southern part of eastern Europe. The larvae feed on Ephedra species, including Ephedradistachya. Host-plants of the larvae of diamond-back moths (Plutellidae)...
the Late Miocene and Pliocene epochs from one of the original Ephedra species E. distachya. USA (AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY) Dispersal method is normally small...
leaves. Many plants contain the medicinal compound ephedrine. Gnetales Ephedradistachya Ginkgoaceae (maidenhair-tree family) Ginkgo, from Chinese and Japanese...
Crete and Turkmenistan. The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ephedradistachya. Fauna Europaea Host-plants of the larvae of diamond-back moths (Plutellidae)...
calcicole. Among them there are many relicts and endemisms. Here grow Ephedradistachya, Clausia solntsepechnaya, Onosma simplicissima, trisetum desert, Hedysarum...
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