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Flora of Armenia

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Biodiversity of Armenia

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The flora of Armenia comprises about 3800 species of vascular plants (The fifth national report to convention on biological diversity. Yerevan, 2014). A characteristic feature of the flora is the absolute predominance of both the number of species and genera of angiosperms – about 97%. Club mosses, horsetails, and ferns are represented by 39 species, and gymnosperms, only nine species. Among angiosperms, dicots completely predominate – about 80% species. Algae are an integral component of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They carry out the process of converting solar energy into the chemical energy of photosynthesis products, which is necessary to maintain life and the circulation of substances and energy in the biosphere of our planet, and create an energy base for the existence of organisms of other trophic levels. Currently, the algoflora of Armenia contains 497 species of land and water algae, which are included in 131 genera. Lichens are composite organisms traditionally known as an association of fungus and algae and/or cyanobacteria. According to the latest lichenological studies, 619 lichenized fungi taxa have been reported from the Republic of Armenia so far. Over the years, studies of the bryoflora of Armenia documented 433 species of mosses belonging to 168 genera and 65 families. Of these, 50 species (28 genera, 20 families) are from liverworts, and 383 species (140 genera, 45 families), from mosses (Manakyan, Resultaty bryologicheskikh issledovanij v Armenii (Results of bryological studies in Armenia). Arctoa 5:15–33, 1995; Manakyan et al., Materialy k Hepaticae Armenii (Materials to Hepaticae of Armenia). Flora, vegetation and plant resources of Armenia, 12, 17–25, 1999; Pogosyan, Bryoflora vulkanicheskogo massiva Arailer (Bryoflora of volcanic massif Arailer) (Republic of Armenia). Arctoa 12:187–190, 2003b).

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Fayvush, G. et al. (2023). Flora of Armenia. In: Fayvush, G. (eds) Biodiversity of Armenia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34332-2_3

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