Plant Responses to Hyperarid Desert Environments by Monier M. Abd El-Ghani Francisco Martín Huerta-Martínez Liu Hongyan & Rahmatullah Qureshi

Author:Monier M. Abd El-Ghani, Francisco Martín Huerta-Martínez, Liu Hongyan & Rahmatullah Qureshi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

P% presence values, Per perennials, Ann annuals, L.F life form, Ph phanerophytes, H hemicryptophyte, Ch chamaephytes, Th therophytes, G geophytes, P parasites, SA Saharo–Arabian, SZ Sudano–Zambezian, IT Irano–Turanian, ES Euro–Siberian, ME Mediterranean

Figure 6.10 shows the life forms of the recorded species according to Raunkiaer (1937). The 69 recorded species were represented in five different life forms. Therophytes (31%) constitute the largest number of species (21 species). Chamaephytes have high value of 26% including 18 species, phanerophytes have 10 species representing about 14% of the flora, and hemicryptophytes represent about 26% of the flora with 18 species. Geophytes were represented by one species, namely, Panicum turgidum, and parasites were represented by one species, namely, Orobanche cernua.

Fig. 6.10Life-form spectrum of the recorded species in the study area. H hemicryptophytes , Ge geophytes, Ch chamaephytes , Th therophytes, Ph phanerophytes

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