Comprehensive Description
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Eragrostis aegyptiaca (Willdenow) Delile: Karkur Murr. Wet sand beside pools. Flowering
*Phragmites communis (Linnaeus) Trinius: Karkur Murr. Wet areas beside pools. Fruiting. Photographed at Ain Zuweia by Kemal el Din (1928) and reported from one of the “springs” by Hassanein Bey (1925). Shaw (1931): “Uweinat, about 200 ft. Wadi bed, near rock wall, up to 7 ft. high.”
- bibliographic citation
- Osborn, D. J. and Krombein, Karl V. 1969. "Habitats, Flora, Mammals, and Wasps of Gebel Uweinat, Libyan Desert." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.11