Herbaria

Family

Caryophyllaceae

subfamily

Caryophylloideae

Genus

Silene L.

Species

Silene rubella L.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

L.

citation

Sp. Pl. ed. 1:419(1753)

herbariaSynonyms

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm, Ms, Di, Dg, Nv, Ol, S)

CAIM (Nv, Ol)

ALEX (Mm)

SCUI (Dg)

TANE (Mm-Nv)

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herbariaSubLocality

Siwa and Bahariya Oases

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

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herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIM

ALEX

SCUI

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

ALEX (1)

SCUI (2)

TANE (23)

Habitat

Common weed in Fallow & Irrigated fields and edges of irrigation canals

FlFrperiod

March-May

LifeForm

Therophyte

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

Abu en-nagaf أبو النجف

Nashash El Diban نشاش الدبان

EnglishName

Reddish Catchfly, Reddish Campion

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Syria, Palestine, Iraq, N Africa and Portugal, eastwards to Sicily

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

Near Threatened (NT)

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Shamso, E. (1991).Taxonomical and Ecological studies of the Egyptian species of Silene L. Silenoideae-Caryophyllaceae. Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Science, Cairo University

Hosny, A., El Hadidi, M.N. & Shamso, E. (1992) Taxonomic studies of Silenoideae (Caryophyllaceae) in Egypt. 1. Systematic revision of the genus Silene L. Taeckholmia 14:1-36.

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

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

Boulos, L. (2000) Flora of Egypt, vol. 1. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.

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