Herbaria

Family

Aizoaceae

subfamily

Mesembryanthemoideae

Genus

Mesembryanthemum L.

Species

Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

L.

citation

Sp.Pl.ed.1:480 (1753)

herbariaSynonyms

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm - Nn- S)

CAIRC (Di, Dg)

CAIA (Mm)

ASTU (Mm- Ms- Nv)

TANE (Nv-Mm)

ALEX (Mm-Nv)

CAIM (Mm)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

CAIA

ASTU

TANE

ALEX

CAIM

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (41)

CAIRC (2)

CAIA (9)

ASTU (20)

TANE (14)

CAI (11)

Habitat

Sandy Coastal Plains

FlFrperiod

Jan- April

LifeForm

chamaephyte

LifeSpan

Annual or Biennial

herbariaArabicName

Ghasoul غسول

Thalg ثلج

EnglishName

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Euro-Siberean & Mediterranean regions

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

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

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

Hosny,A.I.,Aizoaceae,In M.N.El Hadidi (edit.) Fl.Aegypt. 1,2:96-100 (2000).. 1,2:96-100 (2000).

Ahmed, D.A., 2009. Current situation of the flora and vegetation of the western Mediterranean desert of Egypt. Ph. D. Thesis, Tanta Univ., Tanta. 424 pp.

Shaltout, K.H., Sharaf El-Din, A. and Ahmed, D.A. (2010). Plant life in Nile Delta. Tanta University Press, Tanta University. pp. 231

Shaltout, k. and Ahmed, D. A. (2012). Ecosystem services of the flora of southern Mediterranean Desert of Egypt. Ethnobotany Research & Applications 10: 403-422

Shaltout, k., Hosni H., El-Fahar, R. Ahmed, D. A. (2015). Flora and vegetation of the different habitats of the western Mediterranean region of Egypt. Taeckholmia, 35:45-76.

Ahmed, D. A.; Shaltout, k. and Kamal, S. (2014). Mediterranean Sand Dunes in Egypt: Threatened Habitat and Endangered Flora. Life Sci J;11(10):946-956.