Herbaria

Family

Orobanchaceae s.l.

subfamily

Genus

Lindenbergia Lehm.

Species

Lindenbergia indica (L.) Vatke

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.) Vatke

citation

Oesterr. Bot. Z. 25: 10 (1875).

herbariaSynonyms

Lindenbergia abyssinica Hochst. ex Benth.

Lindenbergia nigrescens Vatke

Lindenbergia sinaica (Decne.) Benth.

Dodartia indica L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI ( Dg, S, Rz, Ra, Ge)

CAIM(( Dg, S, Ge)

CAIRC (Da- Ge)

ALEX (Mm)

TANE (Ge)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIM

CAIRC

ALEX

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (100)

CAIRC (4)

ALEX (1)

TANE (5)

Habitat

Stony wadis and hillsides

FlFrperiod

March - April

LifeForm

chamaephyte

LifeSpan

Annual or perennial

herbariaArabicName

Mesesa, Meseiseh, Messissah مصيصة

EnglishName

Indian Lindenbergia, Nettle Leaved Lindenbergia

herbariaUses

Fodder. Said to cause the fall of teeth in camels

GlobalDistribution

SE. Egypt to N. Kenya, Arabian Peninsula to Indian Subcontinent

Chorology

Saharo-Arabian

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Täckholm, V. 1974. Students’flora of Egypt (2nd ed.). Cairo Univ

El Hadidi, M. N. and Fayed, A. A. 1994/1995. Materials for excursion Flora of Egypt. Taeckholmia 15: 1-233.

M. El Hadidi, A. Hosny, N. El Husseini and Eman M. Shamso (1999): Scrophulariaceae in the flora of Egypt. 1. Systematic revision of the indigenous taxa. Taeckholmia 19(2): 227-259.

Shamso, E. (2000). Systematical studies of the species of Scrophulariaceae in Egypt. Ph.D. Thesis (Unpublished).

Boulos, L. (2002) "Flora of Egypt" (Verbenaceae-Compositae) Volume 3. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.

Boulos L (2009). Flora of Egypt checklist. Revised Annotated Edition. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.