Asphodelus tenuifolius Cav.Species
  • Protologue : Anales Ci. Nat. 3: 46 (1801)
  • Status
  • NAaccepted (present)
  • TAaccepted (present)
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  • Ecology and Distribution :
  • Tropical Africa
    Biology :
    Annual herb 15-50 cm tall; roots fibrous; leaves 6-30x0,2-0,3 cm, semiteret, not sticky see more in the book
    Ecology :
    Dayas and sandy regs; sandy plains and wadis; sandy places in galbs and kedias; clayey graras; often in large stands; with Brocchia cinerea in graras and slightly choked-up places in hamadas; grassy patches in evergreen bushland; to 2000 m alt Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus; Atlantic Islands; N Africa from Morocco to Egypt; Palestine, Lebanon, Gulf States, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Socotra, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India. Probably introduced in Mauritius and Rodrigues Isl.,
  • Bibliography23
  • BALL, J. (1878). Spicilegium florae Maroccanae - J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 16: 693 — under: Asphodelus fistulosus var. tenuifolius (Cav.) Baker 
    BATTANDIER, J.A & L.C. TRABUT (1895). Flore de l'Algérie et catalogue des plantes du Maroc. [Monocot. ou vol.2] - : 54 — under: Asphodelus fistulosus subsp. tenuifolius (Cav.) Batt. 
    Cat. Pl. Maroc 1: 118 (1931). 
    PAMPANINI, R. (1931). Prodromo della Flora Cirenaica. - : 150 — under: Asphodelus tenuifolius var. micranthus Boiss. 
    SENNEN, F. & F. MAURICIO (1933). Catàlogo de la Flora del Rif Oriental y principalmente de las cabilas limítrofes con Melilla. - : 118 — under: Asphodelus maroccanus Gand. 
    Étud. Fl. Vég. Sahara Cental (1933) 
    Fl. Tunisie [Cuénod] : 203 (1954). 
    Fl. Afrique N. 5: 39 (1958). 
    Fl. Algérie [Quézel & Santa] 1: 194 (1962). 
    Fl. Libya 57: 14 (1976).
    Fl. Sahara (ed. 2) : 132 (1983).
    ALI, S. I., S. M. H. JAFRI & A. EL GADI (ED.) (1989). Flora of Libya. - Al Faateh University, The National Herbarium, Department of Botany Tripoli Libya.: 16 — under: Asphodelus fistulosus auct.
    Fl. Mauritanie : 376 (1991).
    Boissiera 52: 153 (1996).
    Cat. Pl. Vasc. N. Maroc 2: 875 (2002) 
    Le Hoggar, promenade botanique 139 (2004)
    Fl. Egypt (Boulos) 4: 36 (2005).
    Fl. Tunisie (Le Floc'h & Boulos) : 312 (2008). 
    Trav. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V, Sér. Bot. 39: 146 (2009)
    Fl. Prat. Maroc 3: 397 (2014)
    Pl. Sudan Checklist : 88 (2015).
    Flore ill. Tchad 95 (2019) 
    Fl. ill. Burkina Faso & Mali: 128 (2024)
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