Herbaria

Family

Gramineae (Poaceae)

subfamily

Panicoideae

Genus

Echinochloa P.Beauv.

Species

Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.) Link

citation

Hort. Berol. 2: 209 (1833)

herbariaSynonyms

Panicum colonum L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAIA (Dg)

CAI (Mm-Ms-Nv- Nn- Ol-On-Dg- Da-Dl-Ra- S)

CAIRC (Mm- Nv- Nn-On

TANE (Mm- Ms-Nv-Ra)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

30°53'59.99" N 31°06'60.00" E

herbariaDate

1986

herbariaCollector

Prof. Afaf Badawy

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAIA

CAI

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAIA (1)

CAI (183)

CAIRC (13)

TANE (71)

Habitat

Aquatic and moist places, gardens

FlFrperiod

All the year

LifeForm

Therophyte

LifeSpan

Annual

herbariaArabicName

abu rokba, ابو ركبه

hasheesh anaareb, حشيش انارب

medaad, مديد

Shawash شواش

zhafra زفره

EnglishName

corn panic grass/ jungle rice/millet rice

herbariaUses

Fodder

medicinal

GlobalDistribution

Tropics and subtropics

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

Ibrahim, K., Hosni, H. and Peterson, P. 2016. Grasses of Egypt. Smithonian Contributoion to Botany no. 103

Cope, T. 2005. Gramineae in L. Boulos, Flora of Egypt, vol 4. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

Cope, T. and Hosni, H.1991. A key to Egyptian grasses. Royal Botanic gardens, Kew. 75 pp

Täckholm, V, Täckholm, G. and Drar. 1941. Flora of Egypt. Vol.1:Bull.Fac.Sci. 17: 1-557

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

Peterson,P.,Hosni,H. and Shamso, E. 2020. A key to the grasses (Poaceae) of Egypt. Webbia 75(2): 329-353