Floristic feature of plant cover associated with invasive weed Ranunculus sceleratus L. Nile Delta, Egypt | ||
| Mansoura Journal of Biology | ||
| Volume 46, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 37-45 PDF (948.12 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjb.2020.462407 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mamdouh S. Serag* 1; Abd El-Hamid A. Khedr1; Yasser A. El-Amier2; Shahenda M. El-Afify2 | ||
| 1Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta, Egypt | ||
| 2Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aims to survey the plant flora associated with Ranunculus sceleratus of the Ranunculaceae family in deltaic Governorates to investigation of the floristic features, including list of plant species, life-span, life-form spectra and floristic analysis. The selected area for the current study is situated in north and middle borders of three Deltaic Governorates namely: Damietta, ElDakahlia and Kafr-ElSheikh. Floristic analysis of the associated flora revealed that, the whole number of the listed plant flora surveyed in the current study is 72 species belonging to 59 genera and 23 families. Poaceae, Asteraceae, Amaranthaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Cyperaceae, Polygonaceae, Brassicaceae are the largest families. The life-form spectra in the study area are represented by therophytes (47.5%), helophytes and geophytes (17.5% each), hemicryptophytes (8.75), chamaephytes (5%) and finally nanophanerophytes which attained value of (3.75 %). Chorologically, the floristic investigation of the selected area shown that, about 41.88% of the whole number of the listed species is Mediterranean flora. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Ranunculus; Vegetation; Chorotype; Duration; Life form | ||
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