Herbaria

Family

Apocynaceae

subfamily

Asclepiadoideae

Genus

Oxystelma R.Br.

Species

Oxystelma esculentum(L.f.)Sm. var. alpini (Decne.)N.E.Br.

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(Decne.)N.E.Br.

citation

in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl.Trop. Afr.4(1):382 (1904)

herbariaSynonyms

Periploca esculenta L.f.

Oxystelma alpini Decne.

Sarcostemma esculentum (L.f.)Holm

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm- Nv- Nn)

CAIRC (Nn- Da)

ASTU (Nv- Nn)

CAIA (Nv)

TANE (Nv)

herbariaSubLocality

Edfo (Nile Bank), Aswan Governorate

Edfo (Nile bank)

TANE (El-Tawfiky effluent)

el-tawfiky effluent, Qanatir

herbariaDetailedLocality

N: 24° 57' 48.113'' E: 32° 52' 33.389''

herbariaDate

16 / 10 / 1956

17/Oct/1956

TANE (summer 2002)

9/7/2002

herbariaCollector

A. Khattab

L. Boulos

TANE (Emmad Farahat)

Emad Farahat

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIRC

ASTU

CAIA

TANE

TANE

Helwan univ.

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (29)

CAIRC (2)

ASTU (22)

CAIA (1)

TANE (1)

helwan (2)

Habitat

Waste moist places, edges of cultivation, canal banks

FlFrperiod

March-April

LifeForm

Chamaephyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

Libbin لبين

EnglishName

Rosy Milkweed Vine

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

Egypt, Sudan, yemen, Ethiopia, Palestine, Iraq to India

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

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

Boulos, L. 2000. Flora of Egypt, vol.2. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

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