The endemic flora of Morocco

Abstract

A new paper listing the 961 described bee species of Morocco was recently published in the journal Zootaxa. This paper includes a review of historical records from the literature on the bee fauna of Morocco and recent records compiled from contemporary entomologists. Bee species richness in Morocco is almost half of European bee diversity while surface area of Morocco represents only 7% of the European surface area.Thanks to an extensive collaboration between local and world bee experts we were able to cross-check between independently assembled global, regional, and local databases to achieve a complete and precise coverage of the wild bee fauna of Morocco as far as identified by now. The list of bees was compiled from several sources including scientific literature, online databases and records compiled by the authors based on study of public museum and private collections. This complete checklist [The wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Morocco, 2020] includes also information about Moroccan type material (specimens used to describe Female of the Morrocan endemic bee Rhodanthidium ordonezi (Credit: Nicolas Vereecken), used for the cover of the monograph.

Ethnopharmacological survey of medicinal plants with hallucinogenic effect and plants used against pain, inflammatory diseases, diabetes and urinary lithiasis in Zagora “Morocco”.

“…Data obtained during the survey were cross-checked (local names/scientific names) according to published literature. Scientific names of species were identified following "Morocco Flora" [15], check list of endemics and specimens types of the vascular flora of North Africa [16], the endemic flora of Morocco [17], vascular flora of Morocco inventory and chorology [18], and the International Plant Name Index web site [19].…”

From Traditional Farming in Morocco to Early Urban Agroecology in Northern Mesopotamia: Combining Present-day Arable Weed Surveys and Crop Isotope Analysis to Reconstruct Past Agrosystems in (Semi-)arid Regions

“…The northern zone is situated in the central-western Rif and forms part of the Mediterranean eco-region; the southern zone is situated on the southern slope of the Anti-Atlas mountains and forms part of the Saharan eco-region ( Figure 1) (Benabid 2000;Rankou et al 2013).…”

“…Most of the fields surveyed had been established decades ago or longer, but two Table 1. Summary of climatic and vegetation zones of the farming study sites in Morocco; bioclimate classifications follow Emberger (1955), revised by Sauvage (1963) and Achhal et al (1980), vegetation stages according to Benabid (1982Benabid ( , 2000 and eco-regions and climax vegetation formations according to Benabid (2000) and Rankou et al (2013). of the fields at Agda had just been cleared (by burning) of mature woodland that had grown for 30+ years; both were being initially cultivated with pulses at the time of the survey.…”

“…of the fields at Agda had just been cleared (by burning) of mature woodland that had grown for 30+ years; both were being initially cultivated with pulses at the time of the survey. The southern zone is situated at the limit of the Mediterranean eco-region under strong Saharan influence, and can be considered part of the Saharan ecoregion (Benabid 2000;Rankou et al 2013). This ecoregion is characterised by climatic aridity and low precipitation.…”

An ethnomedicinal survey of a Tashelhit-speaking community in the High Atlas, Morocco

“…Documenting the extent of reliance on medicinal plants is important because loss of local knowledge of medicinal plants challenges developing countries' health care systems (Quinlan and Quinlan, 2007). which around 879 are endemic (Rankou et al, 2013), thus having the richest flora of any North African country and one of the most diverse of the Mediterranean region (Rankou et al, 2013). and specialized local occupations.…”