Herbaria

Family

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

subfamily

Rhinanthoideae Wettst.

Genus

Striga Lour

Species

Striga hermonthica (Delile) Benth.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Delile) Benth.

citation

Companion Bot. Mag. 1: 365 (1836).

herbariaSynonyms

Buchnera hermonthica Delile

Striga campuleia Steud.

Striga senegalensis Benth.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Nv, Nn)

CAIM (Nv, Nn)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIM

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (26)

Habitat

On native and cultivated grasses, especially sugar-cane

FlFrperiod

April–September.

LifeForm

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

Odaar عدار

EnglishName

herbariaUses

medicinal

GlobalDistribution

Tropical Africa, Madagascar and Arabia

Chorology

Saharo-Arabian

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

El Hadidi, M. N. and Fayed, A. A. 1994/1995. Materials for excursion Flora of Egypt. Taeckholmia 15: 1-233.

M. El Hadidi, A. Hosny, N. El Husseini and E. 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 Ph.D. Thesis (Unpublished).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.

Boulos L (2009). Flora of Egypt checklist. Revised Annotated Edition. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.