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    Stipa tenacissima (esparto, esparto grass, halfah grass, alfa grass, or needle grass) is a perennial grass of northwestern Africa and the southern part...
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    (as Stipa spartea Trin.) Jarava ichu Ruiz & Pav. (as S. ichu (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth) Macrochloa tenacissima (Loefl. ex L.) Kunth (as S. tenacissima Loefl...
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    and espadrilles. Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum spartum are the species used to produce esparto. Stipa tenacissima (Macrochloa tenacissima) produces the better...
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    distributed in arid areas around the Mediterranean Sea. It is similar to Stipa tenacissima and both species are used to produce a fiber product known as esparto...
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    southern range of the European Olive (Olea europea) and Esparto Grass (Stipa tenacissima). Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets...
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    its name from "l'auffe" ("auffo" in provençal dialect), or "alfa" (Stipa tenacissima), a sort of grass used to make rope, braids, and fishing nets. The...
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    Esparto was chosen as the new name, and it means "feather grass" (Stipa tenacissima) in Spanish. In 1888 Esparto was laid with track from the Vaca Valley...
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    perennial plant species owing to drought and desertification, such as Stipa tenacissima and Artemisia herba alba. In the northern part of the sahel, where...
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    (Pistacia lentiscus), Kermes oaks (Quercus coccifera), esparto grass (Stipa tenacissima), thyme (Thymus), and rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis). Around the...
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  • plant life (holm oak and Cotoneaster nummularia, Aleppo pine, and Stipa tenacissima) and birds (including the Tunisian crossbill, the Egyptian vulture...
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    the Juniperus oxycedrus and the Pinus halepensis. There is also the Stipa tenacissima, the Esparto grass and the Artemisia alba. The park is home to the...
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    and foothills of the Atlas Mountains there is a steppe dominated by Stipa tenacissima whereas Artemisia herba-alba dominates in where there are silty slopes...
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    by the grasses Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum spartum, interspersed with subshrubs like Artemisia herba-alba. The fiber from S. tenacissima and L. spartum...
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  • woodland persists. Steppe vegetation is predominant, dominated by Stipa tenacissima at lower altitudes. Haut Atlas Oriental National Park is not only...
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    Ionopsidium megalospermum, Lonicera arborea, Ranunculus granatensis, Stipa tenacissima, Thalictrum speciosissimum, and Valeriana nevadensis. Spanish red...
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    Juniperus thurifera and Juniperus phoenicea, steppe grasslands with Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum spartum, and low shrublands with Artemisia herba-alba,...
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  • depending on altitude and locality. Larvae have been recorded on Stipa tenacissima. "Berberia de Lesse, 1951" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some...
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    found at the edges of dunes overgrown by some bushes and halfa grass (Stipa tenacissima), or lives in soil covered with sparse vegetation, where it constructs...
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  • and classification of Moroccan flora, in particular, halfah grass (Stipa tenacissima). His Moroccan work also included studies on the altitudinal zonation...
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    subsp. leporinum Imperata cylindrica 'Rubra' Lolium rigidum Macrochloa tenacissima Miscanthus sinensis fa. zebrina Nasella tenuissima Ochlopoa annua Pennisetum...
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