Floristic composition of the Plant Communities Associated with Zilla spinosa, Eastern Desert, Egypt | ||
| Mansoura Journal of Biology | ||
| Volume 60, Issue 7, December 2022, Pages 27-32 PDF (1.27 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjb.2022.459789 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Yassmen G. Abdelkadir1; El‐Sayed F. El‐Halawany1; Salama A. Salama2; Yasser El-Amier* 3 | ||
| 1Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura - 35516, Egypt | ||
| 2Zoology Department, Entomology, Faculty of Science, Damanhour University | ||
| 3Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The current study investigates the floristic aspects of plant communites associated with Zilla spinosa; including a list of plant species, duration, life-form spectra, and phytochorotype of the plant life in three wadis of Eastern Desert (Wadi Hagoul, Wadi Araba and wadi El-Rashrash). There were 92 species in the total number of recorded taxa studied in this work, which were divided into 77 genera and 27 families. Asteraceae comprises 20 species of the total recorded plant species, followed by family Boraginaceae 11 species, Poaceeae 10 species, Fabaceae 7 species, Chenopodiaceae and Zygophyllaceae comprise 5 species each. The maximum number of species (84) was documented in the inland desert of Wadi Araba, while the Wadi Hagoul was represented by 57 species. According to chorotype, the total number of recorded species were Mediterranean taxa and Saharo-Sindian element was highly represented. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Zilla species; Desert; Floristic, Vegetation, Wadi Hagoul | ||
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