Hypecoum aegyptiacum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ranunculales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Ordo: Ranunculales

Familia: Papaveraceae
Subfamilia: Fumarioideae
Tribus: Hypecoeae
Genus: Hypecoum
Subgenus: H. subg. Hypecoum
Sectio: H. sect. Mnemosilla
Species: Hypecoum aegyptiacum

Name

Hypecoum aegyptiacum (Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf., Illustr. Fl. Egypt., Mem. Inst. Egypt. 2. 37 (1887).

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Mnemosilla aegyptiaca Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 122 (1775).
    • Type: “Alexandriae in peninsula Rosettin copiose” (C)
• Heterotypic
  • Mnemosilla forskalii Ehrenb. ex Fedde in Engler, Pflanzenr. 40 (IV.104): 93 (1909). nom. inval., pro syn.
  • Hypecoum patens Willd., Hort. Berol. t. 5 (1803)
    • Type:: “H. in Aegypto.”
  • Hypecoum refractum in sched. Herb. De Candolle (1833), nom. nud..
• Misapplied names
  • Hypecoum imberbe auct., non Sm. in Sibth. & Sm., Fl. Graec. Prodr. 1(1): 107 (1806).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Africa Regional: Northern Africa Egypt (Nile Delta, NW-coastal Egypt) Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Western Asia Cyprus (in error), Palestine (Israel: coastal W-Israel, N-Negev Desert), Sinai (N-Sinai). References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Additional references

• Dahl, Å.E. 1990. Infrageneric division of the genus Hypecoum (Papaveraceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 10(2): 129–140. DOI:10.1111/j.1756-1051.1990.tb01760.x Reference page. 

Links

• International Plant Names Index. 2009. Hypecoum aegyptiacum. Published online. Accessed: Nov 15 2009.
• Euro+Med 2006 onwards: Hypecoum aegyptiacum in Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Aug. 3.
• Hassler, M. 2018. Hypecoum aegyptiacum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Aug. 3. Reference page.