Author(s): Loutfy Boulos
Article publication date: 1985-03-01
Vol. 3 No. 1 (yearly), pp. 71-98.
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Keywords
Saudi Arabia, flora, vascular plants
Abstract
The Asir Mountains, in the SW of Saudi Arabia, have a rich and varied flora still inadequately known. The author was able, in May 1980, to collect in an area to the south of Abha, 266 species of vascular plants in 59 families are listed from his collections; some are reported as new for Saudi Arabia or the Arabian Peninsula; 98 of these species are not recorded in Migahid, Flora of Saudi Arabia, 2nd ed., 1978.