Pteridophytes of Tanumah Mountains, Aseer Region, South-West Saudi Arabia PDF

Keywords

Tanumah mountains, Aseer region, Saudi Arabia, Flora survey, New records

Abstract

Nine species of pteridophyte are listed and described in this survey of the Tanumah Mountains in Aseer region, southwestern Saudi Arabia. Three species of Asplenium (A. adiantum nigrum, A. ceterach, and A wiride) are new records for Saudi Arabia, while six species Adiantum capillus veneris, Cetrach officinarum. Asplenium aethiopicum, A filare, A trichomanes and Cheilanthes pleridioides) are reported as a new record for the Tanumah Mountains. The frequency of some species collected from different areas of the Aseer region in previous studies and the present study are given in Table (1).