Seven Brachytheciaceae (Musci) Species New to Libya

Three New Pottiaceae Records to the Bryoflora of Libya

“…In this connection el-Saadawi et al (2017) stated that more than 50% of the Libyan moss flora had been reported before 1962 and not again. this is despite the many new records to the bryoflora of Libya published by Shabbara & Youssef (2006), Youssef et al (2009 a, b), and Youssef et al (2017Youssef et al ( , 2018. the current work added three new records to the bryoflora of Libya (namely Crossidium laevipilum, Didymodon umbrosus and Tortula brevissima) and confirmed the existence of three taxa that are quite old records (reported before 1931) namely Acaulon triquetrum, Gymnostomum calcareum and Tortula atrovirens and one taxon namely; Aloina ambigua, being recorded by rungby (1962), Bizot (1973) and Gallego et al (1999).…”

“…The moss flora of Libya attracted the attention of a number of european botanists between the late 19 th and the late 20 th centuries followed by mainly egyptian botanists in the present century. The first was Müller (1874) thereafter the work was continued by many researchers, i. e., ascherson (1881), Baroni (1892), Durand & Barratte (1910), hariot (1913, Zodda (1913), Bottini (1914), Zodda (1914), Pampanini (1917), Zodda (1926), Pampanini (1930Pampanini ( -1931, andreánszky (1934), rungby (1962), Ochi (1972), Bizot (1973Bizot ( ), arts et al (1995, Gallego et al (1999Gallego et al ( ), ros et al (1999, Shabbara & Youssef (2006), Youssef et al (2009 a, b), ros et al (2013), and Youssef et al (2017Youssef et al ( , 2018. the list of mosses of the Mediterranean area published by ros et al (2013) showed that a total of 91 taxa were known from Libya.…”

Illustration and Description of the Recent Bryaceae Records from Bahariya Oasis ─ Egypt

“…valparaisense is well known from Europe, N. and S. America, whereas in Africa it has been recorded only from Fezzan in the Libyan Sahara and from Khartoum in Sudan (Arts et al, 1995). The report of this species in Bahariya Oasis resembles that from the Fezzan (Libya) locality, since the two areas have similar habitats and climate, similar presence of many oases, similar water sources from ground water and similar arid climates (Youssef et al, 2017;Taha, 2019).…”

Bryophytes of Libya. II. Musci: an annotated checklist

“…Map showing sites of old and new collection of mosses in Libya. 1-Tobruk, 2-Darnah, 3-Chersa, 4-Al Qubbah, 5-Mechili, 6-Susa, 7-Shahet, 8-Beida, 9-Wadi Kouf, 10-Mas'sa, 11-Hani;ya, 12-Tocra, 13-Tecniz, 14-Al Marj, 15-Tolmetta 16-Benghazi, 17-Tripoli, 18-Borgo and 19-Gharian, The part that has been, hitherto, published on these recent moss collections confirmed the existence of 25 of the old Libyan moss records (Youssef et al 2017a, b andYoussef 2017) and added 14 new records to the bryoflora of Libya; 1 Fabroniaceae (Shabbara & Ghanem, 2006), 2 Orthotrichacea (Youssef et al 2009a, b), 7 Brachytheciaceae (Youssef et al 2017a), 2 Pottiaceae (Youssef et al 2017b) and 2 Bryaceae (Khalil & Youssef 2017). The 3 species (1 Fabroniaceae and 2 Orthotrichacea) were included in the list of Ros et al (2013) which maintained 91 taxa, while the other 11 species (7 Brachytheciaceae, 2 Pottiaceae and 2 Bryaceae) raised the total number of the mosses known from Libya to 102 taxa.…”