Checklist of plants of Rashad and Alabassia localities (eastern Nuba Mountains), South Kordofan Sudan

By

Ismail, Ismail Mirghani
Elawad, Alawia Abdalla

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-12-8

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

11

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

1805--9

Subjects

Biodiversity , economic uses. , Flora , lifeforms , vegetation of Sudan

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: 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.