Herbaria

Family

Nitrariaceae

subfamily

Genus

Nitraria L.

Species

Nitraria retusa (Forssk.) Asch.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Forssk.) Asch.

citation

Verh.Bot. Vereins. Prov. Brandenb.18:94 (1876)

herbariaSynonyms

Peganum retusum Forssk.

Nitraria seneghalensis Poir.

Nitraria tridentata Desf.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

TANE (Mm- Ms-S- Di - Ra-Dg- Nv - Ol- S)

CAI (Nv- Rz-Ra -Dg- Di- S)

CAIA (Dg)

herbariaSubLocality

TANE (Al Sallum Red sea Alex-Rosetta road Wadi El Garowola Red sea Red sea Moghra Oasis Siwa Oasis West Mediterranean coast Wadi El-Natrun Wadi El-Rayan South Sinai North Sinai El-Suez Canal North Sinai South Sinai Ein Khudra Hurghada)

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

TANE

CAI

CAIA

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

TANE (401)

CAI (129)

CAIA (5)

Habitat

Coastal salt marshes Inland salt marshes Coastal sand dunes sand flats Inland sand dunes Saline depression Salt marshes Bed(Garden)

FlFrperiod

April - May

LifeForm

Phanerophyte

LifeSpan

Therophyte

herbariaArabicName

Ghardaq غردق

Sahanoon سحنون

Enab ed-deep عنب الديب

Tommeir تمير

EnglishName

Salt tree- Nitre bush

herbariaUses

Medicinal

GlobalDistribution

North and East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East.

Chorology

SA - AR

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

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

Boulos, L. 1999. Flora of Egypt, vol1. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

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

Bedair, H., Shaltout, K. H., Ahmed, D. A., Sharaf El-Din, A., El-Fahhar, R. (2020). Characterization of wild trees and shrubs in the Egyptian flora. Egypt. J. Bot. Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 147-168.