Towards a moss flora of Taif and its vicinities, Saudi Arabia. 1- Funariaceae

Abstract

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.

Bryum radiculosum Brid. New to Arabian Peninsula with New Bryaceae Additions to South Hejaz Region in Saudi Arabia

“…2000 m a.s.l., ca. 20 km northwest of Taif city (Abou- Salama et al, 2005). The average annual rainfall in the study area is up to 200 mm.…”

“…The average temperature degrees in summer are 26-28°C and in winter are 14-16°C (Abou- Salama et al, 2005;Taha, 2019b). It is worth mentioning that, more relevant information about the study areas (Al-Shafa, Al-Hada) was referred to by Abou- Salama et al (2005) and Taha (2019b). All data about habitats and sites of collections are included in Table 1.…”

“…Moreover, the present paper provides distribution and floristic aspects of all Bryaceae known from SH region. This study is considered the third on the moss flora of this region; it is concerned with Bryaceae while the two previous studies (Abou -Salama et al, 2005 andTaha, 2019b), were concerned with Funariaceae and Grimmiaceae respectively.…”

Recording a Syncarpy Form and The First Abnormal Capsule Lid Worldwide in Byum dichotomum Hedw. Population of Saudi Arabia

“…In excess of 4000 specimens which were gathered previously (from 1999 to 2003) from Taif Province in Saudi Arabia by the second author and kept in CAIA (Ain Shams University herbarium, Cairo, Egypt) without full identification (just at family level). In 2005, the first paper of a series concerned with these specimens (c. 4000) has been published, which studied Funariaceae family (Abou-Salama et al 2005). Recently, the second paper in this series, which was concerned with the Grimmiaceae family has been published by Taha (2019).…”

An annotated checklist of Saudi Arabian mosses

“…The list is up to date, annotated and includes all moss taxa known from Saudi Arabia till now with their distribution in different phytogeographical regions. The distribution given here is mainly based on data obtained from Kürschner (2000), Kürschner et al (2001), Refai (2001), Abo Salama et al (2005), Kürschner and Ochyra (2014), Taha and Shabbara (2019) and Taha et al (2020). It is worthy to mention that the list includes up to date accepted names of the reported moss taxa after the many changes that occurred in the last years.…”