Wild Plants of Malta - Plant Family Index

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Index of Plant Families (7 families in this page)

Ironwood

Oak

Walnut

Mulberry

Plane / Sycamore

Elm

Nettle

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CASUARINACEAE ( Ironwood Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Description text for this family is under progress and unavailable at the moment ...

Botanical Name

Common Name

Maltese Name

Flowering Period

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Casuarina cunninghamiana

Miquel

Main Synonym :

Casuarina tenuissima

Ironwood,
Australian She-Oak

No Name

Summer

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Casuarina equisetifolia

Forster

Main Synonym :

Casuarina litorea

Ironwood,
Australian Pine,
Ironwood

No Name

Summer

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Casuarina verticillata

Lamarck

Main Synonym :

Casuarina stricta

Ironwood

No Name

Summer

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FAGACEAE ( Oak Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Monoecious; trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate. Male flowers in catkins or heads; perianth 4- to 7-lobed; stamens 8-20(-40), usually twice as many as perianth-lobes. Female flowers 1-3, surrounded by an involucre of scales (cupule); perianth 4- to 6-lobed; styles 3 or 6. Fruit a 1-seeded nut, in groups of 1-3, surrounded by the accrescent cupule.

Botanical Name

Common Name

Maltese Name

Flowering Period

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Quercus ilex

Main Synonym :

Quercus calicina

Oak,
Holm Oak,
Holly Oak

Balluta,
Siġra Tal-Ġandar

Apr-May

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Quercus robur

Main Synonym :

Quercus pedunculata

Oak,
English Oak

Balluta Ingliża,
Siġra Tar-Ruvlu

Spring

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JUGLANDACEAE ( Walnut Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Monoecious; deciduous trees with alternate, imparipinnate leaves. Male flowers in catkins borne on twigs of the previous year; perianth present or absent; stamens 3-40. Female flowers usually few, borne on twigs of the current year; perianth 3- to 5-lobed. Ovary inferior, unilocular or incompletely 2- or 4-celled; ovule 1. Fruit a drupe or nut.

Botanical Name

Common Name

Maltese Name

Flowering Period

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Carya illinoensis

(Wangenheim) Koch

Main Synonym :

Carya illinoinensis

Walnut

Ġewż Tal-Pekan

Apr-May

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MORACEAE ( Mulberry Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Trees or shrubs with latex. Monoecious or dioecious. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite); stipules caducous. Flowers usually densely spicate, capitate or enclosed in a fleshy, urceolate receptacle. Flowers with 3- or 4-partite perianth. Male flowers with 3 or 4 stamens opposite the perianth-segments. Female flowers with ovary 1- or 2-locular, superior; styles 1(2). Ovule anatropous or campylotropous. Fruit a drupelet often surrounded by the fleshy perianth; drupelets often crowded into syncarps.

Botanical Name

Common Name

Maltese Name

Flowering Period

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Broussonetia papyrifera

(L.) Ventenat

Main Synonym :

No main synonyms for this taxon

Mulberry

No Name

Mar-Apr

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Ficus carica

Main Synonym :

Ficus carica var. rupestris

Mulberry,
Caprifig

Tina,
Farkizzan,
Bajtar Ta' San Ġwann

May-Jun

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Ficus elastica

Roxburgh

Main Synonym :

No main synonyms for this taxon

Mulberry,
Rubber Fig,
Rubber Plant

No Name

Spring

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Ficus macrophylla

Desfontaines

Main Synonym :

No main synonyms for this taxon

Mulberry

No Name

Spring

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Ficus microcarpa

Main Synonym :

Ficus nitida

Mulberry

No Name

Spring

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Ficus rubiginosa

Desf. Ex Vent.

Main Synonym :

Ficus australis

Mulberry,
Rusty-leaved Fig,
Little Leaf Fig

No Name

Spring

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Maclura pomifera

(Rafinesque) Schneider

Main Synonym :

Toxylon pomiferum

Mulberry

No Name

Summer

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Morus alba

Main Synonym :

No main synonyms for this taxon

Mulberry

Ċawsla,
Siġra Tac-Ċawsli

Apr-May

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Morus alba var. pendulum

Main Synonym :

No main synonyms for this taxon

Mulberry,
Weeping White Mulberry

Ċawsla,
Siġra Tac-Ċawsli

Apr-May

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Morus nigra

Main Synonym :

No main synonyms for this taxon

Mulberry

Tuta,
Siġra Tat-Tut

Apr-May

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PLATANACEAE ( Plane / Sycamore Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Trees with scaling bark. Monoecious; flowers arranged in globose, unisexual capitula. Perianth 4- or 6-merous, arranged in 2 whorls. Stamens 4-6, opposite the outer perianth-segments. Ovary superior; carpels 3-6, free, each with 1(2) pendulous, orthotropous ovules.

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Common Name

Maltese Name

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Platanus acerifolia

(Aiton) Willd.

Main Synonym :

Platanus hybrida

Plane / Sycamore,
London Plane Tree

Siġra Tad-Dorf

Jun-Aug

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ULMACEAE ( Elm Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Deciduous trees, rarely shrubs, without latex. Leaves alternate, simple, usually asymmetrical at base. Flowers all hermaphrodite or male and hermaphrodite. Perianth herbaceous; stamens erect in bud. Fruit a drupe or samara.

Botanical Name

Common Name

Maltese Name

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Ulmus americana

Main Synonym :

Ulmus alba

Elm,
White Elm,
Water Elm

Ulmu Amerikan,
Nemmiesa Amerikana

May-Jun

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Ulmus canescens

Melville

Main Synonym :

Ulmus minor subsp. canescens

Elm,
Grey-leaved Elm,
Mediterranean Elm

Nemmiesa,
Siġra Tan-nemus,
Ulmu Selvaġġ

May-Jun

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Ulmus glabra

Hudson

Main Synonym :

Ulmus montana

Elm

Ulmu

May-Jun

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Ulmus minor

Miller

Main Synonym :

Ulmus minor subsp. minor

Elm,
Common Elm

Ulmu

May-Jun

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Ulmus procera

Salisbury

Main Synonym :

No main synonyms for this taxon

Elm

Ulmu Ingliż,
Nemmiesa Ingliża

May-Jun

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URTICACEAE ( Nettle Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Herbs, small shrubs or rarely climbers, without latex. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple, usually stipulate. Flowers usually unisexual. Perianth 4- or 5-merous, often persistent. Male flowers with (1-)4 or 5 stamens opposite the perianth-segments and inflexed in bud, often with rudimentary ovary. Female flowers often with small staminodes; ovary superior, 1-locular, sometimes adnate to perianth; style simple; ovule 1, orthotropous. Fruit an achene. Seeds usually with endosperm.