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Contribution to the Flora of Egypt: Taxonomic and Nomenclature changes

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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1. Vascular plant taxonomy

Abstract

Updated nomenclatural treatment of the native and naturalized vascular flora of Egypt is presented. It was compiled by referring to several information sources such as existing literature, relevant online database, and herbaria collections. Recent molecular phylogenetics have resulted in the identification of new families. All families, genera, and species have been updated in their circumscription and nomenclature based on the classification of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG III & APG IV). The updated nomenclature and current taxonomic status of 288 taxa (including 34 subspecies, and 22 varieties) belonging to 169 genera and 49 families are provided. The nomenclature changes of all taxa are on the basis of the most recent taxonomic treatments which combined genera previously included in other families, or even in new families. Only the specific and infraspecific taxa that are previously mentioned in the latest checklist and now treated as synonyms are reported. Twenty-two families are changed to up-to-date names and become synonyms of other families. Seven new family names are added to the Flora of Egypt namely: Salveniaceae, Gisekiaceae Hypericaceae, Lophiocarpaceae, Limeaceae, Phyllanthaceae, Linderniaceae, and Phrymaceae; in addition, Nanorrhinum is a new generic name of family Plantaginaceae.

DOI

10.21608/taec.2022.142236.1039

Keywords

Flora of Egypt, Nanorrhinum, New family names, Nomenclatural changes

Authors

First Name

Hasnaa

Last Name

Hosni

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Plant & Micribiology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University

Email

h.hosni@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0001-7609-9383

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Shamso

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Botany & Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12612, Egypt

Email

eshamso@sci.cu.edu.eg

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-0068-0224

Volume

42

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

34848

Issue Date

2022-07-01

Receive Date

2022-06-01

Publish Date

2022-07-12

Page Start

12

Page End

26

Print ISSN

1110-7413

Online ISSN

2357-044X

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https://taec.journals.ekb.eg/article_248964.html

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Original Article

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636

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Taeckholmia

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https://taec.journals.ekb.eg/

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Contribution to the Flora of Egypt: Taxonomic and Nomenclature changes

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Created At

22 Jan 2023