Herbaria

Family

Colchicaceae

subfamily

Genus

Colchicum L.

Species

Colchicum gussfeldtianum Asch. & Schweinf.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

Asch. & Schweinf.

citation

Mem.Inst. Egypt.2, suppl.774:1889

herbariaSynonyms

Colchicum ritchii var. guessfeldtianum (Asch. & Schweinf.) Stef.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Dg- S)

herbariaSubLocality

CAI (Dg Type- St.Catherine)

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (2)

Habitat

mountainous region

FlFrperiod

November

LifeForm

Geophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

Qottan قطان

Aqtan أقطان

EnglishName

Meadow saffron

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

E. Egypt to S. Jordan and W. Saudi Arabia

Chorology

Near endemic

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

Egypt (EX -Extinct)

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Täckholm, V, and Drar. 1954. Flora of Egypt. Vol.3:Bull.Fac.Sci. 30: 1-644

Hosni, A. Hosny, A., Shamso, E. and Hamdy, R. 2013. Endemic and Near-Endemic Taxa in the flora of Egypt. Egyp.J.Bot. 53(2):357-383

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

Boulos, L.2005. Colchicaceae in L. Boulos, Flora of Egypt, vol 4. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

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

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

El Hadidi, M.N. and Hosni, H.A. Conservation and threats in M.N. El Hadidi (2000)Flora aegyptiaca vo;.1(1):105-151.Palm Press and Cairo University Herbarium