Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Cichorioideae

Genus

Launaea Cass.

Species

Launaea fragilis (Asso) Pau subsp. fragilis

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Asso) Pau

citation

Bol. Soc. Aragonesa Ci. Nat. 16: 68 (1917)

herbariaSynonyms

Launaea resedifolia (L.) Kuntze

Lactuca fragilis Asso

Launaea resedifolia subsp. longiloba (Boiss. & Reut.) Maire

Launaea tenuiloba (Boiss.) Kuntze

Zollikoferia tenuiloba Boiss.

Scorzonera resedifolia L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm, Ms)

CAIRC (Mm-Ms)

ASTU (Mm)

CAIM (Ms)

TANE (Mm)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

CAIM

ASTU

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (180)

CAIRC (15)

TANE (5)

Habitat

Sandy and calcareous desert

FlFrperiod

February-April

LifeForm

Hemicryptophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Spain, Sicilia, Malta, N. Africa to Sahara.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' Flora of Egypt ed.2. Cairo University

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

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

Boulos, L. and Hind, D. 2002. Compositae in L. Boulos. Flora of Egypt, vol. 3. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Zareh, M.M.; Faried, A.M. and Mohamed, M.H. 2016.Revision of Launaea Cass. (Compositae) in Egypt with special references to cypselar diversity. Feddes Repert. 127: 14-29