Herbaria

Family

Acanthaceae

subfamily

Avicenioideae

Genus

Avicennia L.

Species

Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Forssk.) Vierh.

citation

Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. 71: 435 (1907)

herbariaSynonyms

Sceura marina Forssk.

Avicennia officinalis sensu Klotzsch in Peters

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Ra)

CAIRC (Ra)

ASTU (Ra)

TANE (Ra)

CAIA (Ra)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

CAIA (15/Jan/1960 , 20/Oct/1950 , 20/Oct/1955 )

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

CAIA (3)

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

ASTU

CAIA

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (121)

CAIRC (2)

ASTU (43)

CAIA (12)

TANE (16)

Habitat

coastal mud and tidal zone

FlFrperiod

LifeForm

Phanerophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

Mangrove tree

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

East coast of Africa, south-west, south and south-east Asia, and Australia

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

global (LC -Least Concern)

Egypt (VU- Vulnerable)

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

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

El Hadidi, M., Abdel Ghani, M. and Fahmy, A.G. 1992. The plant red data book of Egypt. 1. woody perennial.Palm Press and Cairo University Herbrium. Cairo, Egypt

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

Bedair, H., Shaltout, K. H., Ahmed, D. A., Sharaf El-Din, A., El-Fahhar, R. (2020). Characterization of wild trees and shrubs in the Egyptian flora. Egypt. J. Bot. Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 147-168.