Herbaria

Family

Asphodelaceae

subfamily

Genus

Asphodelus L.

Species

Asphodelus tenuifolius Vav.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

Cav.

citation

Anal. Cienc. Nat. 3:46, t. 27, f.2 (1801)

herbariaSynonyms

Asphodelus fistulosus L. var.tenuifolius (Cav.)Baker

Asphodelus tenuifolius var.micranthus Boiss.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Nv-Nn-Ol- On-Mm-Di-Da- Dg-S- Ge-Ra

TANE (Mm, Dg, Ge, S)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (248)

TANE (17)

Habitat

Desert Wadies, Sandy plains, Alluvial soil, edge of cultivation

FlFrperiod

February-April

LifeForm

Hemicryptophyte

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

Barwaq برواق

Basal Ibliss بصل ابليس

Basal Afrit بصل عفريت

Basal Ibliss بصل ابليس

EnglishName

Onion weed

herbariaUses

medicinal

GlobalDistribution

Atlantic Islands, Portugal, Mediterranean, Iraq

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

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

El Garf, I.A. 2000. Alliaceae in the Flora of Egypt 1.Systematic revision of the indigenous species of Allium L.Taeckholmia 20(2):181

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

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., 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.