MORPHOLOGICAL AND ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS OF ANABASIS ARTICULATA ECOTYPES IN EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Botany Department, Faculty of Science (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

2 Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.

Abstract

The present study has been carried out on ten stands of Anabasis articulata in Egypt. The relationships between the studied Anabasis articulata stands have been demonstrated as dendrogram based on the morphology, anatomy and some chemical constituents of the plants. Four characteristic ecotypes of Anabasis articulata have been recognized: (i) xerophytic ecotype in the stands of Belbase desert and Sudr El Hytat-Nekhl Road, (ii) xero - halophytiç ecotype in the stands of the Eastern Desert, Sinai Desert, Kattamia-Ain Sukhna Road, Isthmic desert (Fayid), Adabia and Saint Katherine, (iii) halophytic ecotype in the stands of the Red Sea Costal region, Ras Sudr and Hammam Faraon, Sinai and (iv) halo-xerophytic in the stands of the Nekhl-El Hasana and El Hasana-El Quseima Roads. These ecotypes differ, remark-ably, morphologically, anatomically and chemically. This may be due to the varia-tion in climatic and soil characteristics of the habitats

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Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences
Volume 13, Issue 2
September 2005
Pages 233-248

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