Herbaria

Family

Acanthaceae

subfamily

Acanthoideae

Genus

Blepharis Juss.

Species

Blepharis edulis (Forssk.) Pers.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Forssk.) Pers.

citation

Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.:114(1775)

herbariaSynonyms

Acanthus edulis Forssk.

Acanthodium spicatum Delile

Blepharis ciliaris auct., non (L.) B.L.Burtt.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (S-Dg- Ge)

CAIM (Di, Dg, Ge)

ASTU (S- Ra)

CAIRC (Ge)

TANE (Ge, Mm, Di)

CAIA (Ge)

ALEX (Ge)

herbariaSubLocality

CAIA Wadi Kansisrab, Gebel Elba, Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate

herbariaDetailedLocality

N: 25° 6' 29.304'' E: 33° 47' 47.544''

herbariaDate

27 / 10 / 1956

herbariaCollector

A. Khattab

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIM

ASTU

CAIRC

TANE

ALEX

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (46)

ASTU (11)

CAIRC (1)

TANE (4)

CAIA(2)

ALEX (1)

Habitat

Desert plains, wadi beds and rocky slops

FlFrperiod

August-October

LifeForm

Hemicryptophyte

LifeSpan

Annual or perennial

herbariaArabicName

Shoak ed-dab'a شوك الضبع

Shoak ed-deeb شوك الديب

EnglishName

herbariaUses

as fodder for sheep and camels

GlobalDistribution

Sudan, Tropical East Africa, Arabia and Iran

Chorology

SA - AR + SU - ZA

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

Egypt (NT -Near threatened)

herbariaBibliography

Täckholm, V. (1974) -

El Hadidi, M.N. & Fayed, A.A. (1994/95) -

Boulos, L. (2002) -

Shamso, E. (2010)

herbariaFullCitation

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

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

Boulos, L. (2002). Flora of Egypt, Vol.3 . Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.

Shamso, E. (2010). A synoptic revision of Acanthaceae in Egypt, with new record from Gebel Elba. Taeckholmia 30:127-144

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.