Herbaria

Family

Gramineae (Poaceae)

subfamily

Chloridoideae

Genus

Diplachne P.Beauv.

Species

Diplachne fusca (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. subsp. fusca m. & Schult.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.

citation

Syst. Veg. 2:615 (1817)

herbariaSynonyms

Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth

Festuca fusca L.

Diplachne malabarica (L.)Merill.

Poa malabarica L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm- Nv- Nn- On-Dl- Ra)

CAIRC (Nv-Nn)

TANE (Mm- Nv-S-Ra)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (106)

CAIRC (7)

TANE (16)

Habitat

moist habitats and rice fields

FlFrperiod

All the year

LifeForm

Therophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

qasaba قصبه

heesh هيش

sayfoun سفون

sunbul سنبل

Abu raghi بو رجبي

EnglishName

bearded sprangletop/ feather grass

herbariaUses

Medicinal

Fodder

Fuel

GlobalDistribution

tropical and subtropical Old World.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Ibrahim, K., Hosni, H. and Peterson, P. 2016. Grasses of Egypt. Smithonian Contributoion to Botany no. 103

Cope, T. 2005. Gramineae in L. Boulos, Flora of Egypt, vol 4. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Cope, T. and Hosni, H.1991. A key to Egyptian grasses. Royal Botanic gardens, Kew. 75 pp

Täckholm, V, Täckholm, G. and Drar. 1941. Flora of Egypt. Vol.1:Bull.Fac.Sci. 17: 1-557

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

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 (EFE). Taeckholmia 15