Herbaria

Family

Amaranthaceae s.l.

subfamily

Salsoloideae

Genus

Caroxylon Thunb.

Species

Caroxylon imbricatum (Forssk.) Moq.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Forssk.) Moq.

citation

Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 177 (1849)

herbariaSynonyms

Salsola foetida Delile ex Spreng.

Salsola imbricata Forssk. subsp. imbricata

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm- Nv- Nn-Dl- Ol-On-Ge- Ra)

MNF (Nn)

CAIRC (Nv-Nn-Da- Ge-Ra)

TANE (Nv-Mm-Da- Ra)

herbariaSubLocality

CAI(221 km W Alexandria on the highway Ras El Hekma Cairo-El Bahariya road, 195 km Plateau E El Baharyia El Baharyia Oasis, El Gedida Qarun Lake Abu Simbil)

MNF(Wadi Aggag SE of Aswan)

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

MNF

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (230)

CAIRC (37)

TANE (16)

Habitat

sandy soils

FlFrperiod

June-December

LifeForm

Phanerophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

herbariaUses

Fodder

medicinal

GlobalDistribution

north Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and southwestern Asia

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

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

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