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Family
Sterculiaceae [Family (APGIII) : MALVACEAE]
subfamily
Dombeyoideae
Genus
Melhania Forssk.
Species
Melhania denhamii R. Br.
herbariaSubsps
herbariaVariety
Authority
R. Br.
citation
in Denh. & Clapp. Narr. Trav. Afr. App. 232(1826)
herbariaSynonyms
Brotera bracteosa Guill. & Perr.
Cardiostegia kotschyi C.Presl
Melhania bracteosa (Guill. & Perr.) Boiss.
Melhania kotschyi Hochst.
DiagnosticCharacters
herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory
CAI (Ge)
CAIM (Ge)
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herbariaDetailedLocality
herbariaDate
herbariaCollector
herbariaCollectorNo
herbariaNoOfSheets
herbariaHerbariumAbbr
CAI
CAIM
herbariaBarCode
herbariaTotalNoOfSheets
CAI (20)
Habitat
Stony ground
FlFrperiod
Throughout the year
LifeForm
Phanerophyte
LifeSpan
Perennial
herbariaArabicName
Dabagh دباغ
Riba Hambouk ريبا هامبواك
EnglishName
herbariaUses
The leaves and flowers are used as cooling agents and as blood purifiers.
GlobalDistribution
Algeria, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Pakistan, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen
Chorology
herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable
Egypt (VU- Vulnerable)
herbariaBibliography
Ta ¨ckholm, V. 1974.
El Hadidi, M. N. and Fayed, A. A. 1994/1995
Boulos L (2000).
Boulos L (2009).
Shamso, E. and Hamdy, R. (2010)
herbariaFullCitation
Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' Flora of Egypt ed.2. Cairo University
El Hadidi, M. N. and Fayed, A. A. 1994/1995. Materials for excursion Flora of Egypt. Taeckholmia 15: 1-233.
Boulos L (2000). Flora of Egypt, vol.2 (Geraniaceae-Boraginaceae). Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
Boulos L (2009). Flora of Egypt checklist. Revised Annotated Edition. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
Shamso, E. and Hamdy, R. (2010) Melhania steudneri (Sterculiaceae) new record for Egypt, and a synopsis of the Sterculiaceae in Egypt. Nordic J. Bot., 28, 174–181.
El Hadidi, M., Abdel Ghani, M. and Fahmy, A.G. 1992. The plant red data book of Egypt. 1. woody perennial.Palm Press and Cairo University Herbrium. Cairo, Egypt
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