Herbaria

Family

Caryophyllaceae

subfamily

Paronychoideae

Genus

Polycarpon L.

Species

Polycarpon prostratum (Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf.

citation

Oesterr. Bot. Z. 39: 128. (1889)

herbariaSynonyms

Arenaria prostrata (Forssk.) Ser.

Alsine prostrata Forssk.

Polycarpaea memphitica Delile

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Nv- Nn)

CAIM (Dg, Nv, )

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (21)

Habitat

Sandy places

FlFrperiod

February-April

LifeForm

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

Rihaay ريحاي

EnglishName

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Africa to Syria, NE. Pakistan to S. China and Indo-China.

Chorology

PAL

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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 (EFE). Taeckholmia 15

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

Boulos, L. 1999. Flora of Egypt, vol1. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Hosny,A.I.,2000. Caryophyllaceae,In M.N.El Hadidi (edit.) Flora Aegyptiaca 1(2),103-160 . Palm Press and Cairo Univesity Herbarium.