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Jointfirs
Every rated Ephedra record is fire-resistant — 1 of 4 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 4 records carrying 6 evidence rows from 3 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Mormon tea Ephedra sp. Awaiting evidence Limited evidence 1 source rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
1 species
Awaiting evidence
2 species
About jointfirs
Corpus context. Ephedra is the directory's #199 largest of 550 genus groups: 4 records carrying 6 evidence rows from 3 cited sources, recorded as shrub, groundcover , hardy across USDA zones 5–5. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Ephedra: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.