A Study on the Flora Along Ismailia Canal

Abstract

A study on the flora along Ismailia canal recorded the presence of 110 species belonging to 94 genera and 34 Angiospermae families. Gramineae was represented by 24 species (21.8 %), each of Compositae, Leguminosae and Cruciferae were represented by 15 (13.6%), 8 (7.3%) and 7 (6.4%) species, respectively. Five species were recorded from both Convolvulaceae and Solanaceae, while Aizoaceae, Chenopodiaceae and Polygonaceae were represented by 4 species. Three species from both Cyperaceae and Euphorbiaceae; and 2 species from each of Amaranthaceae, Malvaceae, Plantaginaceae, Salicaceae and Umbelliferae. Moreover, 18 families were represented by only 1 species. Annual species in the studied area were 73 species (66.4 %); while perennial ones were 32 species (29.1%). There were 3 trees (2.7%) and 2 shrubs (1.8%). An endemic species; Trigonella occulta which is considered as a new record to the area of the study was collected. Three species of naturalized flora are recorded which are Aptenia cordifolia, Lycopersicum esculentus and Tricticum aestivum, where there is one parasitic species: Cuscuta campestris. Six hundred and thirty specimens were collected from the studied area and prepared as herbarium sheets.

Floristic Studies in Suez Canal Region with Seventeen New Records to the Area

“…Moreover, the floristic composition of Ismailia city wasn't studied before in taxonomy point of view. But there were some ecological studies on and near this region e.g., Abd El-Hamid (1996), Abd El-Hamid (2005) Mohamed & Azer (2012) and El Bous & Abd El-Hamid (2018). Finally, the flora of Ismailia-Suez highway was analyzed by some authors but only in restricted localities e.g., Mashaly et al (1995), Abd El-Ghani (1998, El-Amier & Abdel-Kader (2015), Abd El-Hamid (2017), Hamdy et al (2017), Azer (2018) and Radi et al (2020).…”