Herbaria

Family

Caryophyllaceae

subfamily

Caryophylloideae

Genus

Silene L.

Species

Silene apetala Willld.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

apetala

grandiflora Boiss. Fl. Orient. 1:597(1867)

glabrata A.Hosny & E.Shamso Taeckholmia 14:33(1992)

Authority

Willd.

citation

Sp. Pl., ed. 4,2(1): 703(1799)

herbariaSynonyms

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm, Ms, S)

CAIM (Mm, Di)

TANE (Mm)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIM

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (53)

TANE (1)

Habitat

Sandy plains

FlFrperiod

Febraury-May

LifeForm

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

Bare catchfly

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Mediterranean region, SW Asia and N Africa

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

Shamso, thesis (1991)-

Hosny et al., Taeckholmia 14:1-36(1992) -

Täckholm, V. (1974) -

El Hadidi, M.N. & Fayed, A.A. (1994/95) -

Boulos, L. (1999) -

Hosni et al.. (2013).

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 Unpublished M.Sc.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.

Hosni, H., Hosny, A., Shamso, E & Hamdy, R. (2013). Endemic and Near -Endemic Taxa in theFlora of Egypt. Egypt. J. Bot., Vol. 53 (2): 357-383.