Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura - 35516, Egypt
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Agriculture Applications Department, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science
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Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
Abstract
A list of plant species, life spans, life-form spectra, and a floristic analysis of the plant life along the shoreline of lake Manzala wetland. Floristically, there are 63 species of flowering plants that have been identified in the current study. These species are divided into 50 genera and 30 families. The primary groups are Chenopodiaceae, Asteraceae, Poaceae, and Cyperaceae, which together account for 28 species, or around 44.4% of the total number of documented species. The majority of plants are cryptophytes, which include helophytes, geophytes, and hydrophytes (32%) and partly nanophanerophytes (4 percent ). These species were divided into four groups based on their ecological characteristics: four floating hydrophytes, four submerged hydrophytes, fourteen emergent species, and 41 terrestrial species.. According to the floristic analysis of the study area, 35 species, or around 55.55 percent of the total number of species recorded, are accounted for by taxa from the Mediterranean. Biregional (16 species = 25.39%), monoregional (6 species = 9.52%), or pluriregional (18 species) taxa are all represented..
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