STUDY OF FLOWERING PLANTS AND VEGETATION COVER IN WADI MANAS JABAL AL-AKHDAR, LIBYA

Abstract

The study aimed to enumerate and classify the flowering plant species that were randomly collected from different regions of the study area during the years 2009-2010. The seeds of Gymnospermae are of two families and there are two types, while the angiosperms plants are 184 families divided into Dicotyledoneae, which contained 39 families, 111 genera, 147 species and 37 plant species of Monocotyledoneae. It contained 7 families, 37 species and 30 genera Recording of 12 endemic plant species, life forms, the highest percentage of Therophytes was 53.76%, then the short-lived plants Chamaephytes 30.10%, then the terrestrial plants 11.82 %Cryptophytes, and the long-perennial plants Phanerophytes4.83. Investigate the vital natural factors, as these plants were not studied in the study area in the past, as well as filling the gaps in the Libyan flora of the Manas – valley, which is located in the north-east of Hamda, descends north towards the sea and ends in the coastal area at the village of Al-Mabani.