Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Carduoideae

Genus

Silybum Adans.

Species

Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.) Gaertn.

citation

Fruct.Sem.Pl.2:378 (1791)

herbariaSynonyms

Carduus marianus L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm,Nv,Ol,S)

CAIA (Nv)

ALEX (Mm- Ms)

TANE (Mm-Nv)

CAIRC (Nv)

herbariaSubLocality

On Canal Bank

herbariaDetailedLocality

30° 2' 39.912'' N 31° 14' 8.5632'' E

herbariaDate

1956

2/Mar/1956

herbariaCollector

Prof. Dr. A. Al-Nwaihii

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAIA

CAI

ALEX

TANE

CAIRC

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAIA (5)

CAI (50)

ALEX (5)

TANE (11)

CAIRC (1)

Habitat

canal banksw,roadsides,wast ground.

FlFrperiod

March-June

LifeForm

Therophyte

LifeSpan

biennial

herbariaArabicName

shook el ghazaal, شوك الغزال

EnglishName

milk thistle/ blessed milkthistle

herbariaUses

medicinal

GlobalDistribution

Mediterranean region,Sinai,eastwards to Afghanistan.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

ُEl-Gazzar,A.,El Husseini,N.Khafagi,A.A. and Mostafa,N.A. (2019 ).Computer -generated Keys to the Flora of Egypt.9. The spiny taxa of Asteraceae. Egyp.J.Bot.vol.59 (1):107-138

Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' Flora of Egypt ed.2. Cairo University

El Hadidi,M.N.& Fayed,A.(1994-95).Materials for Excursion Flora of Egypt.Taeckholmia 15:190.

Boulos, L. (2009). Flora of Egypt Checklist, Revised annotated edition, Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Boulos, L. and Hind, D. 2002. Compositae in L. Boulos. Flora of Egypt, vol. 3. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt