Eremobium
Genus of plants
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Eremobium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.[2] It includes a single species, Eremobium aegyptiacum, which is native to the Sahara Desert of northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Sinai Peninsula and southern Levant, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan.[1]
| Eremobium | |
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| cuckoo bee (Nomada fenestrata) nectar foraging on Eremobium aegyptiacum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Eremobium Boiss. |
| Species: | E. aegyptiacum |
| Binomial name | |
| Eremobium aegyptiacum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Malcolmia aegyptiaca Spreng. | |