saharo, arabian, region, this, article, does, cite, sources, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, july, 2009, learn, when, . This article does not cite any sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Saharo Arabian Region news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2009 Learn how and when to remove this message This article is about the floristic region of the Middle East and North Africa For the geopolitical region see MENA The Saharo Arabian Region is a floristic region of the Holarctic Kingdom proposed by Armen Takhtajan The region is covered by hot deserts semideserts and savanna The region occupies the temperate parts of the Sahara desert Sinai Peninsula Arabian Peninsula geographically defined Southern Palestine and Lower Mesopotamia Flora editMuch of its flora is shared with the neighboring Mediterranean and Irano Turanian Regions of the Holarctic Kingdom and Sudano Zambezian Region of the Paleotropical Kingdom However about a quarter of the species especially in the families Asteraceae Brassicaceae and Chenopodiaceae are endemic Endemism edit Some of the endemic genera are Nucularia Fredolia Agathophora Muricaria Nasturtiopsis Zilla Oudneya Foleyola Lonchophora Gymnarrhena Lifago nbsp This ecology related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about geography terminology is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Saharo Arabian Region amp oldid 1025010762, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
