Herbaria

Family

Asparagaceae

subfamily

Scilloideae 

Genus

Drimia Jacq. ex Willd.

Species

Drimia maritima (L.)Stearn

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.)Stearn

citation

Ann.Mus.Goulandris 4:204 (1978)

herbariaSynonyms

Scilla maritima L.

Urginia maritima (L.)Baker

Urginea scilla Steinh.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Mm - Ms- Di)

CAIA(Nv)

TANE (Mm)

herbariaSubLocality

CAIA(Agriculture museum)

TANE (Maqtala)

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

CAIA(29/Sep/1956)

herbariaCollector

CAIA(A. Kattab)

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIA

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (7)

CAIA(1)

TANE (4)

Habitat

Sandy and maritime rock ground

FlFrperiod

August- October

LifeForm

Geophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

Onsoul عنصل

Basal el Onsoul بصل العنصل

Basa el Kalb بصل الكلب

EnglishName

red squill -sea onion - Maritime squill- Medicinal squill

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

southern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

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

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

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

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.

Shaltout, k. and Ahmed, D. A. (2012). Ecosystem services of the flora of southern Mediterranean Desert of Egypt. Ethnobotany Research & Applications 10: 403-422