Herbaria

Family

Amaryllidaceae

subfamily

Allioideae

Genus

Allium L.

Species

Allium desertorum Forssk.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

Forssk.

citation

Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 72 (1775)

herbariaSynonyms

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm - Nv- Dg- Di))

TANE (Nv)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (14)

TANE (2)

Habitat

Calcareous desert soil

FlFrperiod

February-June

LifeForm

Geophyte

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

Ze'eitman زعيطمان

Thoam el hayya ثوم الحيه

EnglishName

Modest Garlic/ Garlic of the viper

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq

Chorology

SA-AR

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

El Garf, I.A. 2000. Alliaceae in the Flora of Egypt 1.Systematic revision of the indigenous species of Allium L.Taeckholmia 20(2):181

Täckholm, V,and M. Drar. 1954. Flora of Egypt. Vol.3:Bull.Fac.Sci. 30: 1-644

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

Boulos, L.2005. Alliaceae in L. Boulos, Flora of Egypt, vol 4. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

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

Ahmed, D.A., 2009. Current situation of the flora and vegetation of the western Mediterranean desert of Egypt. Ph. D. Thesis, Tanta Univ., Tanta. 424 pp.

Shaltout, k., Hosni H., El-Fahar, R. Ahmed, D. A. (2015). Flora and vegetation of the different habitats of the western Mediterranean region of Egypt. Taeckholmia, 35:45-76.

Ahmed, D. A.; Shaltout, k. and Kamal, S. (2014). Mediterranean Sand Dunes in Egypt: Threatened Habitat and Endangered Flora. Life Sci J;11(10):946-956.