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Latin (Botanical) name: Chenopodium ambrosioides L. = Chenopodium anthelminticum L.

Family: Chenopodiaceae

Common name: Chenopodium, Epazote, Nitna, Natne, Abu ’efein (‘efeina), Habaq el-bahr, Fiss el-kalb, Minteena, Fiss el-kelb (kilaab), Minatteena, Fihaniya, Zorbeih, Zorbeh, Sorbeyh.

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

CHENOPODIACEAE Vent. : Leaves flat, broad. Herbs. Fruit surrounded by narrow, almost free perianth-segments, connate at the base only. Flowers small, numerous, in crowded head-like clusters, these spiked or racemed (rarely flowers solitary, then pedicelled).

CHENOPODIUM L. : Flowers very small, perfect, in head-like clusters. Perianth 5-parted, unchanged in fruit. Annual weeds with alternate, petioled, flat leaves. Leaves dentate or cleft, at least the lower ones. Of strong odo(u)r, when squeezed. Leaves dentate, odo(u)r foetid.

CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES L.  (= chenopodium anthelminticum L.) : A yellow-green herb with rich inflorescences. Of various habit, but always easily recognized by its peculiar foetid odo(u)r. (Ann.). Completely naturalized.

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), annual herb in Upper Egypt.

Similar species:

Chenopodium album L.

Chenopodium murale L. = Chenopodium triangulare Forssk.

v. microphyllum Boiss.

Last Update June 8^th, 2002.

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