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This is the first of size volumes describing the flora of the Arabian Peninsula and the Socotra archipelago. Examining all the native flowering plants and ferns (3500-4000 species),as well as major cultivated and amenity plants of economic importance. the flora covers Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, beginning here with an extensive introduction to the area as a whole. Sections on topology and geology, climate, vegetation, floristics, phytogeography and conservation are followed by accounts of approximately 700 species. Each species is mapped individually, with notes on ecology and distribution, and there are illistrations and keys to aid identification. It is a systematic study which is set to become the essentail referfence sources on the Arabian flora. For more information contact info@iucnarabianpsg.org