Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Cichorioideae

Genus

Urospermum Scop.

Species

Urospermum picroides (L.) F.W.Schmidt

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.) F.W.Schmidt

citation

Samml. Phys.-Okon .Aufs.1:275 (1795)

herbariaSynonyms

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAIA (Mm)

ALEX (Mm-Nv-S-Ge)

CAIRC (Mm- Ms-Nv)

CAI (Mm-Nv-Ol-Di-Dg-Da-S-Ge)

TANE (Mm- Nv)

herbariaSubLocality

Borg El-Arab

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAIA

ALEX

CAIRC

CAI

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAIA (2)

ALEX (15)

CAIRC (5)

CAI (100)

TANE (23)

Habitat

weed of cultivation, roadsides

FlFrperiod

January-March

LifeForm

LifeSpan

Annual or Perennial

herbariaArabicName

Galaween جلاوين

Seleis – سليس

Beaeekh بسخا

EnglishName

prickly goldenfleece

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Macaronesia, Mediterranean to Iran and Arabian Peninsula, introduced into Australia

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

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

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

Boulos, L. and Hind, D. 2005. Compositae in L. Boulos. Flora of Egypt, vol. 3. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt