Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Carduoideae

Genus

Centaurea L.

Species

Centaurea calcitrapa L.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

L.

citation

Sp.Pl.1:917 (1753)

herbariaSynonyms

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm,Dl,Nv,Ol)

CAIRC (Mm)

TANE (Nv-Mm)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (69)

CAIRC (1)

TANE (46)

Habitat

roadsides, wast land,edges of cultivation.

FlFrperiod

April-May

LifeForm

LifeSpan

annual or biennial

herbariaArabicName

shok,شوك

EnglishName

Star thistle

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey, Arabia, Iran

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

El-Gazzar,A.;El Husseini,N.;Khafagi,A.A. and Mostafa,N.A.M.(2019 a).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 Ed.Al Hadara Publishing