Herbaria

Family

Caryophyllaceae

subfamily

Caryophylloideae

Genus

Silene L.

Species

Silene villosa Forssk. var. villosa

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

Forssk.

citation

Fl. Aegypt.-arab. 88(1775)

herbariaSynonyms

Silene villosa var. erecta Täckh. et Boulos

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm, Nv, S. On)

CAIM (Di, Dg, Nv, Ge)

SCUI (Di-Dg-S)

TANE (Mm)

herbariaSubLocality

Dakhla, Kharga Oases

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIM

SCUI

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

SCUI (6)

TANE (11)

CAI (100)

Habitat

Sandy desert plains and edges of cultivation

FlFrperiod

March-May

LifeForm

Therophyte

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

Kahlah: كحلة

Attan: عطان

EnglishName

Villous campion

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Sahara to SW. Palestine and W. Arabian Peninsula, S. Iran to N. Central Pakistan

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

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 Unpublished M.Sc.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. 1999. Flora of Egypt, vol1. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt