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Phytogeography of Saudi Arabia
Abdulatif H. Al-Nafie
Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud
Islamic University,
P.O. Box 5760, Riyadh, 11432, Saudi Arabia, E-Mail:
AALNAFIE@Gmail.com
Abstract
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This paper presents the phytogeography of Saudi Arabia and examines its
phytogeographic location within the complex plant geographical regions
of the Middle East. It reviews and discuses works have that been
published so far by plant geographers and biogeographers on the
phytogeographical regions of Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa, and
determines the location of Saudi Arabia within it. The delimitation of
the frontiers between plant-regions in Saudi Arabia, especially the
south western part, which has always created some difficulties for
biogeographers as well as phytogeographers who have studied the region.
Key words: Phytogeography, Saharo-Arabian, Sudano-Zambezian,
Nubo-Sindian Afromontane, Saudi Arabia
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