Contributions to a Bryoflora of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University.Cairo-Egypt.

2 Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Abstract

Twenty-four out of 26 mosses, recently collected from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are new records for the
country and the total number is raised to 27 entities. Six of these mosses and Riccia subbifurca Warnst. ex Croz.
are new records to the whole Arabian Peninsula. Upward-growing peculiar aerial rhizoids are recorded in six of
the mosses. Reference to sporulation, sexual and asexual reproductive structures are made.

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