Herbaria

Family

Gramineae (Poaceae)

subfamily

Oryzoideae

Genus

Leersia Sw.

Species

Leersia hexandra Sw.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

Sw.

citation

Prodr. 21 (1788)

herbariaSynonyms

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Nv-Ol)

CAIRC (Nv)

TANE (Nv)

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herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (35)

CAIRC (3)

TANE (3)

Habitat

aquatic grass,in water or marshland, weed of cultivation

FlFrperiod

All the year

LifeForm

Hemicryptophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

shillakh شيلاخ

sholleikh شلبخ

EnglishName

Rice cut grass / southern cut grass

herbariaUses

medicinal

Fodder

food

GlobalDistribution

throughout the tropics

Chorology

PAN

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

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

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

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