Herbaria

Family

Tamaricaceae

subfamily

Genus

Tamarix L.

Species

Tamarix aphylla (L.)H. Karst

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

(L.)H. Karst

citation

Deut. Fl.: 641 (1882)

herbariaSynonyms

Thuja aphylla L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAI (Nv- Nn- Ol- Mm- Ms- Dg- Da- Di- Ra)

CAIM (Mm- Nv- Nn- Dg- Rz)

CAIRC (Rz- OL)

TANE (Mm. Nv, Nn, Dg, R, S)

herbariaSubLocality

herbariaDetailedLocality

herbariaDate

herbariaCollector

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAI

CAIM

CAIRC

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAI (100)

CAIRC (3)

TANE (46)

Habitat

 Along water courses in arid areas, saline soil

FlFrperiod

July- November

LifeForm

Nano-Phanerophyte

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

Tamarisk - Athel tree

herbariaUses

windbreak

shade tree

GlobalDistribution

Ethiopia, Kenya, Palestine, Arabian peninsula, Iran, Pakistan and India.

Chorology

herbariaIUCNcategriesAvailable

herbariaBibliography

herbariaFullCitation

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

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

Hosni, H.A. 2000. Tamaricaceae in the flora of Egypt. Taeckholmia 20(1): 17-31

Hashash, Sherifa, 1991. Taxonomic and ecological study of the genus Tamarix in Egypt. M.Sc. Thesis, Cairo University

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.H., Sharaf El-Din, A. and Ahmed, D.A. (2010). Plant life in Nile Delta. Tanta University Press, Tanta University. pp. 231

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