Herbaria

Family

Scrophulariaceae Juss. s.l. [Family (APG III]: Plantaginaceae)

subfamily

Scrophularoideae

Genus

Misopates Raf.

Species

Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.

herbariaSubsps

subsp. orontium

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.) Raf.

citation

Autik. Bot. 158 (1840).

herbariaSynonyms

Antirrhinum orontium L., Sp. Pl. 2: 617 (1753).

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm, Ms,Di, Dg, Nv, On, S, Rz, Ra, Ge)

CAI (Mm, Ms,Di, Nv, On, S, Rz, , Ge)

CAIRC (Ge)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIM

CAIRC

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (50)

CAIRC (3)

Habitat

Weed in fields, roadsides and waste places of the farmland, also in sand plains, wadi beds and rocky slopes of the desert.

FlFrperiod

March - May

LifeForm

Therophyte

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

Saysam سيسم

EnglishName

snapdragon

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Eastern tropical Africa, North and South Africa, Europe, Arabia and parts of Asia

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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 Ph.D. Thesis (Unpublished).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.

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

Boulos, L. (2009) "Flora of Egypt" checklist revised annotated edition. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.