The moss flora of Gebel St. Katherine area (Sinai) with nine new records | ||||
Taeckholmia | ||||
Article 7, Volume 21, Issue 1, 2001, Page 81-90 PDF (91.94 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/taec.2001.12456 | ||||
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Author | ||||
Usama Abou-Salama | ||||
Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Sixteen moss species representing eleven genera, six families and five orders are reported from Gebel St. Katherine area including nine new records. Mosses known from this area amount to 28 taxa. Diagnostic features, notes on morphology-habitat relations and moss abundance of the 16 taxa are provided and a key for the identification of the mosses known at present from the study area based on gametophytic characters is constructed. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Egypt; Gebel St. Katherine mountain; moss flora; Southern Sinai | ||||
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