Herbaria

Family

Caryophyllaceae

subfamily

Paronychoideae

Genus

Cometes L.

Species

Cometes abyssinica R. Br. ex Wall.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

R.Br. ex Wall.

citation

Pl.Asiat. Rar. 1:18,tab. 18 (1829)

herbariaSynonyms

Cometes apiculata Decne.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Da -R -Ge)

CAIRC (Ge)

TANE (Da-Ge)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (20)

CAIRC (4)

TANE (5)

Habitat

Rocky Habitats and desert plains

FlFrperiod

Janury - March

LifeForm

Therophyte

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

Dakn El Sheikh دقن الشيخ

EnglishName

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

East Tropical Africa, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somaliland; and Arabia.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

Boulos,L.,1999.Flora of Egypt, vol.1.Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo, Egypt.

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

Hosny,A.I.,2000. Caryophyllaceae,In M.N.El Hadidi (edit.) Flora Aegyptiaca, vol. 1(2),103-160.

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