Confirmation of Doubtful Moss Records of Fissidens fontanus, Grimmia orbicularis and Schistidium apocarpum from Egypt

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El-Saadawi Archegoniate lab, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University. El-Khalifa El-Maamoun Street, Abbassia, Cairo, 11566, Egypt.

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The documentation of moss diversity from Egypt dates back to Delile in 1812. By now the moss flora of Egypt comprises approximately two hundred taxa. Twenty-six of these moss taxa were primarily collected before 1904 as a single record, by foreign scientists, without herbarium specimens, illustration, and description. Expeditions to different phytogeographical territories in Egypt were projected to confirm old reports and record undiscovered taxa. Upon investigation, it was determined that three moss species out of the 26 single records have been confirmed to be present after a century. Fissidens fontanus (Bach. Pyl.) Steud., was the only taxon reported with no locality, in this work, it is reported from Nile Nubia territory raising the total number from this territory to 10. Grimmia orbicularis Bruch ex Wilson and Schistidium apocarpum (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp are reported from the mountains of South Sinai establishing their habitats in this territory. In addition, the precise locations, descriptions, and photographs of those three taxa are provided.

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