Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Carduoideae

Genus

Atractylis L.

Species

Atractylis carduus (Forssk.)Chr. var. angustifolia Tackh.&Boulos

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

angustifolia Tackh. & Boulos

Authority

Tackh.& Boulos

citation

Publ.Cairo Univ. Herb.5: 24, f.46 (1974)

herbariaSynonyms

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm-Ms-Dl-Dg)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (7)

Habitat

calcareous and sandy soils.

FlFrperiod

April-August

LifeForm

Chamaephyte

LifeSpan

perennial

herbariaArabicName

skoak el-gamal شوك الجمل

EnglishName

Yellow Distaff-thistle

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

N.Africa,Sinai,Palestine,eastwards to Baluchistan

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Tἄckholm,V.(1974).Students' Flora of Egypt.ed.2.Cairo.

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

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

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