Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Carduoideae

Genus

Cynara L.

Species

Cynara cornigera Lindl.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

Lindl.

citation

in Sibth.& Sm.,Flora Graec.9:25 (1837)

herbariaSynonyms

Cynara sibthorpiana Boiss.,nom.illeg.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm)

CAIRC (Mm)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (18)

CAIRC (1)

Habitat

fields and calcareous roadsides.

FlFrperiod

March-June

LifeForm

Chamaephyte

LifeSpan

perennial

herbariaArabicName

kharshoof,خرشوف

EnglishName

White Artichoke

herbariaUses

edible as an artichok

GlobalDistribution

Cyrenaica, Egypt,Cyprus,Crete,Aegean Islands .

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

El Gazzar,A.,El Ghamery,A.,et al.(2019). Computer- generated keys to the Flora of Egypt.8.Lamiaceae.Egypt.J.Bot.v59(1):209-232.

Tἄckholm,V.(1974).Studen's 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.(2009).Flora of Egypt Checklist.Revised Annotated Ed.Al Hadara Publishing

Boulos, L. and Hind, D. 2005. Compositae in L. Boulos. Flora of Egypt, vol. 3. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt