Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Carduoideae

Genus

Carthamus L.

Species

Carthamus lanatus L.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

L.

citation

Sp. Pl. ed. 1:830 (1753)

herbariaSynonyms

Carthamus albus Desf.

DiagnosticCharacters

Carduoideae

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm- Nv)

TANE (Mm)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (10)

TANE (5)

Habitat

wast ground, roadsides, edges of cultivation

FlFrperiod

March-June

LifeForm

Therophyte

LifeSpan

annual or biennial

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

woolly distaff thistle/ downy safflower/ saffron thistle.

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Mediterranean region, western and central Europe, Southern Russia, Arabia, Iraq, Iran, to Central Asia

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

El Gazzar,A.,El Husseini,N.Khafagi,A.A. and Mostafa .N.A (2019). Computer generated Keys to the Flora of Egypt.9. The spiny taxa of Asteraceae.Egyp.J.Bot.vol.19 (1):107-138

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