Herbaria

Family

Compositae (Asteraceae)

subfamily

Carduoideae

Genus

Echinops L.

Species

Echinops spinosissimus Turra

herbariaSubsps

herbariaVariety

Authority

Turra

citation

Farset. Nov. Gen.:13 (1765)

herbariaSynonyms

Echinops spinosus L.

DiagnosticCharacters

herbariaPhytogeographicalTerritory

CAIA (Mm)

CAIRC (Mm- Ms- Nv- Dg- S)

CAI (Mm-Ms- Dg- Di- Dl-S-Ra)

TANE (Mm-Ms-Nv-Dg-S-Ge)

herbariaSubLocality

Borg el Arab

herbariaDetailedLocality

30º54'54.05" N 29º32'44.05" E

herbariaDate

2001

herbariaCollector

dr.Mohamed osman

herbariaCollectorNo

herbariaNoOfSheets

herbariaHerbariumAbbr

CAIA

CAIRC

CAI

TANE

herbariaBarCode

herbariaTotalNoOfSheets

CAIA (2)

CAIRC (12)

CAI (180)

TANE (23)

Habitat

Rocky hillsides and waste ground

FlFrperiod

May-July

LifeForm

LifeSpan

Perennial

herbariaArabicName

EnglishName

Spiny Globe-Thistle

herbariaUses

GlobalDistribution

southeasternS Europe (Sicily, Apulia, GrS Europe, N Africa, and SW Asia and Iran

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

Boulos, L. 2002. Flora of Egypt, vol.3. Al Hadara publishing, Cairo, Egypt

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