Herbaria

Family

Boraginaceae

subfamily

Boraginoideae

Genus

Alkanna Tausch

Species

Alkanna tinctoria (L.) Tausch

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.) Tausch

citation

Flora 7: 234 (1824)

herbariaSynonyms

Alkanna lehmannii (Tineo) A.DC.

Lithospermum tinctorium L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAIA(Ms-Di-S)

ASTU (Mm- Ra)

CAIRC (Mm)

CAI (Mm)

herbariaSubLocality

CAIA(Sina - Borg El Arab-Hammam)

herbariaDetailedLocality

CAIA ( N: 29° 30' 0'' E: 34° 0' 0'' )

herbariaDate

CAIA(2014)

herbariaCollector

CAIA(Mohamed Osman)

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAIA

ASTU

CAI

CAIRC

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAIA(5)

ASTU (13)

CAIRC (4)

CAI (87)

Habitat

Coastal calcareous ridges, orchards and road sides

FlFrperiod

February-April

LifeForm

Chamaephyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

Spanish-bugloss / dyer's alkanet

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Mediterranean to S. Central Europe

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

NE (Not Evaluated)

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

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

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