Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Cichorioideae

Genus

Launaea Cass.

Species

Launaea capitata (Spreng.) Dandy

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Spreng.) Dandy

citation

in F. W. Andrews, Fl. Pl. Sudan 3: 40 (1956).

herbariaSynonyms

Sonchus capitatus Spreng.

Zollikoferia glomerata Boiss.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm- Ms-Nv-Nn- Ol-On-Di-Dl-Da- Dg-Ra-Ge)

ASTU (Nv-Mm- Dl)

CAIM (Ms)

CAIRC (Mm- Ms-Nv-Da)

TANE (Mm- Nv-Nn-S)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIM

ASTU

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (135)

CAIRC (14)

TANE (26)

TANE (26)

Habitat

Silty ground

FlFrperiod

March-April

LifeForm

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Canary Islands, N Africa, E. Mediterranean, Arabia to NW. India.

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