Comments on the Egyptian species of Ephedra L. (Ephedraceae)

Abstract

The article deals critically with several aspects of the recently published article on the Egyptian species of genus Ephedra, published by Faried et al. 2018, in Catrina 17. It provides additional and correcting data on the morphology and distribution of some species including an identification key based on vegetative characters, detailed distribution maps based on the evaluation of material from all relevant herbaria and photos of the respective species taken in the field.