Claim · model-written summary
The Egyptian flora included 284 Tubifl orae species in 96 genera and 12 families.
- Taxon
- vascular plantsTracheophytae0
- Outcome
- species of vascular plantse0
- Value
- 284 speciese0
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Verbatim
e0“We found 284 species of vascular plants belonging to 96 genera and 12 families.”
Title
BIOGEOGRAPHY AND DIVERSITY OF THE TUBIFLORAE IN EGYPT
Nahed El-Husseini; Monier M. Abd El‐Ghani; S.I. El-Naggar Polish Botanical Journal 2008
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Five families comprised more than 85% of species.
- Observation The generic spectrum was dominated by nine named genera.
- Observation Therophytes were the dominant life form, followed by chamaephytes and hemicryptophytes.
- Observation Boraginaceae and Scrophulariaceae had the highest share of annuals.
- Observation Trees dominated the Mediterranean zone.
- Observation Shrubs, perennial herbs and therophytes dominated the Sinai.
- Observation The Egyptian Tubifl orae included eight endemics and fourteen near endemics, mostly in southern Sinai.
- Observation Labiatae and Scrophulariaceae had a higher concentration of endemics.
- Observation Teucrium had among the highest endemism among Mediterranean African genera.
- Observation Gamma diversity was 171 in the Sinai Peninsula.
- Observation Gamma diversity was 43 in the Western Desert oases.
- Observation Gamma diversity was 39 along the Red Sea.
- Observation The oases and Nile lands had the highest significant similarity and beta diversity.
- Association Temperature and precipitation jointly affected Tubifl orae richness across seven zones.
- Observation Almost half the species had narrow geographic expansion.
- Observation Clustering and ordination recognized four floristic groups.