The presented list of Egyptian mosses includes 181 taxa in 56 genera, 17 families and 10 orders. Synonyms reported only from Egypt are given in a separate list. The distribution of the 181 mosses in the 11, hitherto, surveyed phytogeographic territories of Egypt shows that S, Mm, Cai and Di are the richest territories regarding the number of recorded taxa. Pottiaceae, Bryaceae and Funariaceae dominate the flora. Pohlia lescuriana (Sull.) Ochi is a new record to Egypt. Other relevant annotations are also given.
P OTTIACEAE includes up to 5,311 species worldwide. It is the largest moss family in Libya with 41 out of a total of 98 species known from this country. Most of the species are quite old records based on collections published before 1932. In this recent work 20 Pottiaceae mosses are reported from Libya including two new records namely; Microbryum rectum (With.) R.H.Zander and Weissia controversa var. crispata (Nees and Hornsch.) Nyholm. Descriptions and illustrations of the two new records together with geographic distribution and brief comments on all taxa are given.
A list is given for the, hitherto, known moss flora of Libya. It includes 102 taxa, belonging to 45 genera in 16 families and 8 orders under class Bryopsida, and their distribution in 20 surveyed localities. Significant annotations are given regarding distribution of the taxa in Libya, in the Mediterranean area, dominance and rarity, old and new records, other relevant information and a list of synonyms.
Three members of Funariaceae are recorded for the first time from vicinities of Taif city; namely Entosthodon attenuatus (Dicks.) Bryhn., E. muhlenbergii (Turner) Fife and E. pulchellus (H.Philib.) Brugués. A key, descriptions, photos, distributional data, comments and maps indicating sites of collections are given.
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