The moss flora of Gebel St. Katherine area (Sinai) with nine new records

Document Type : Original Article

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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.

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