Check List 11(6): e19407, doi: 10.15560/11.6.1805
Checklist of plants of Rashad and Alabassia localities (eastern Nuba Mountains), South Kordofan Sudan
Ismail Mirghani Ismail‡, Alawia Abdalla Elawad§‡ Agricultural Research Corporation, Forestry Research Centre, Sudan§ AlNeelain University, Sudan
Corresponding author: Ismail Ismail ( ismail.mirghani@yahoo.com ) © 2017 Ismail Ismail, Alawia Elawad. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Ismail I, Elawad A (2015) Checklist of plants of Rashad and Alabassia localities (eastern Nuba Mountains), South Kordofan Sudan. Check List 11(6): 1805. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1805 |  |
Abstract
This study identifies and documents species of the native flora the low rainfall woodland savanna of Rashad and Alabassia localities (eastern Nuba Mountains), Sudan. This study identified 260 species belonging to 176 genera and 59 families, including five new records to the flora of the Sudan. The flora is comprised of a variety of different life-forms. Most are phanerophytes 40%, therophytes 35%, and chamaephytes 21%; the remaining are geophytes, hydrophytes, hemicryptophytes and epiphytes. The majority of the plant species have important economic uses.
Keywords
flora; vegetation of Sudan; biodiversity; lifeforms; economic uses.