Floristic Features of the Plant Communities of Wadi Mukheil (Alkharj Province), KSA | ||
| Mansoura Journal of Biology | ||
| Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 18-23 PDF (923.12 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjb.2022.450600 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Dakhil H. Al-Dosari* 1; Saud L. Al-Rowaily1; Ahmed M. Abd-ElGawad2 | ||
| 1Plant Production Department, College of Food & Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia | ||
| 2Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The current study investigates the floristic aspects of Wadi Mukheil (Alkharj Province), KSA, including a list of plant species, life-span, life-form spectra, and floristic analysis of the plant life. Floristically, the total number of the recorded flowering plant species in the present study is 39, belonging to 20 families. Chenopodiaceae, Asteraceae, Poaceae and Asclepiadaceae are the main families being represented collectively by 15 species or about 38.46% of the total number of the recorded species. The recorded species are classified under 4 types of life-form according to the Raunkiær system Chamaephyte, Hemicryptophyte, Therophytes, Phanerophyte, make up the bulk of plants. The floristic analysis of the research region indicates that monoregional Saharo-Arabian and Sudan-Zambezians representing about 14 and 8 species, respectively. Some of the plants found in the study area belong to both regions (Saharo-Arabian + Sudano-Zambezian; Irano-Turanian + Saharo-Arabian), as well as, the group of plants belonging to the Euro-Siberian - Med - Irano-Turanian regions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Wadi Mukheil; Floristic; Vegetation; Alkharj Province; KSA | ||
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