Herbaria

Family

Gramineae (Poaceae)

subfamily

Chloridoideae

Genus

Desmostachya (Stapf) Stapf

Species

Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.) Stapf

citation

Fl. Cap. 7: 632 (1900)

herbariaSynonyms

Briza bipinnata L.

Eragrostis bipinnata (L.) Schum.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Nv-Nn-Da-Ol-On)

CAIRC (Ol)

TANE (On-Nv-Dl)

herbariaSubLocality

CAIRC (Bahariya)

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (115)

CAIRC (4)

TANE (14)

Habitat

along streams, springs, weed of cultivation, and waste places

FlFrperiod

August-November

LifeForm

Hemicryptophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

Halfa حلفا

EnglishName

halfa grass/ salt reed-grass

herbariaUses

Medicinal

GlobalDistribution

Sahara to Tanzania and Indo-China

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

Täckholm, V, Täckholm, G. and Drar. 1941. Flora of Egypt. Vol.1:Bull.Fac.Sci. 17: 1-557

Cope, T. 2005. Gramineae in L. Boulos, Flora of Egypt, vol 4. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Cope, T. and Hosni, H.1991. A key to Egyptian grasses. Royal Botanic gardens, Kew. 75 pp

Ibrahim, K., Hosni, H. and Peterson, P. 2016. Grasses of Egypt. Smithonian Contributoion to Botany no. 103

Peterson P.,Hosni H. and Shamso E. 2020. A key to the grasses (Poaceae) of Egypt. Webbia 75(2): 329-353

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