A Comparative Morphological Study of the Genus Juniperus L. ( Cupressaceae) in North of Iraq

Abstract

A new species Registration of juniper is Juniperus macrocarpa, permissions not previously registered in Flora of Iraq that were composed (Guest researchers and Ali alRawi,1966) so only two species of Juniperus oxycedrus and Juniperus polycarpos were registered at the time. The research included a classification of the species Juniperus which belong to the Cupressaceae family that grown a wild plants in north of Iraq, using the morphological characteristics of (3) species of veins mentioned in (7) sites distributed in provinces of (FNI,MAM and MSU )Nineveh, Dohuk and Sulaymaniyah.