Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Carduoideae

Genus

Atractylis L.

Species

Atractylis carduus (Forssk.) Chr. var. carduus

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

carduus

Authority

(Forssk.) Chr.

citation

Dansk.Bot.Ark.4,3:27 (1922)

herbariaSynonyms

Centaurea carduus Forssk.

Atractylia flava Desf.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm-Ms-Di-Dl-Dg)

CAIRC (Mm-Ms-Di-Dg)

TANE (Nv- Dg)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (12)

CAIRC (19)

TANE (10)

Habitat

calcareous and sandy soils.

FlFrperiod

April-June

LifeForm

Chamaephyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

Shouk Gemal شوك جمال

Khashira خشيرة

فريخه Freikha

عكشAkhish

EnglishName

Yellow Distaff-thistle

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

S. & E. Medit. to S. Pakistan and Arabian Peninsula.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

El -Gazzar,A.,El Husseini,N. Kfafagi,A.Aand Mostafa,N.A. (2019) .Computer generated Keys to the Flora of Egypt.9. The spiny taxa of Asteraceae.Egyp.J.Bot.vol.59 (1):107-138.

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

El Hadidi,M.N.& Fayed,A.(1994-95).Materials for Excursion Flora of Egypt.Taeckholmia 15:190.

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

Boulos, L. and Hind, D. 2002. Compositae in L. Boulos. Flora of Egypt, vol. 3. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt