Check List 17(1): 103-114, doi: 10.15560/17.1.103
New occurrences for the flora of Lebanon: Sideritis syriaca subsp. nusairiensis (Post) Hub.-Mor. (Lamiaceae) and Thymus sipyleus Boiss. (Lamiaceae) and consideration on their distribution, natural habitats, and conservation status
Hicham El Zein‡, Amalric Pouzoulet§‡ Unaffiliated researcher, Beirut, Lebanon§ Unaffiliated researcher, Londonn, United Kingdom
Corresponding author: Hicham El Zein ( hichamelzzein@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Luana Calazans © Hicham El Zein, Amalric Pouzoulet. 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:
El Zein H, Pouzoulet A (2021) New occurrences for the flora of Lebanon: Sideritis syriaca subsp. nusairiensis (Post) Hub.-Mor. (Lamiaceae) and Thymus sipyleus Boiss. (Lamiaceae) and consideration on their distribution, natural habitats, and conservation status. Check List 17(1): 103-114. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.1.103 |  |
Abstract
Investigations carried out during 2019 on the vascular flora of Jabal Akroum, the northernmost part of the Mount Lebanon range near the Syrian border, yielded two new records of Lamiaceae species for the flora of Lebanon: Sideritis syriaca subsp. nusairiensis (Post) Hub.-Mor. and Thymus sipyleus Boiss. We present findings on the distribution and ecology of these species as well as their conservation status at the national level in accordance with International Union for the Conservation of Nature guidelines. We also report on the natural habitats of Jabal Akroum.
Keywords
Akkar, endemism, Lamiaceae, Red List, northeastern Mediterranean