University of Isfahan Taxonomy and Biosystematics 3115-9001 5 15 2013 08 23 A study of the flora of aquatic habitats in East and West of Mazandaran province, Iran بررسی گیاهان زیستگاه‌های آبی شرق و غرب استان مازندران، ایران 25 36 17471 EN Samaneh Tavakoli Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Hamid Ejtehadi Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran 0000-0002-6128-2481 Tayebeh Amini Eshkevari Research Center of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Mazandaran, Nowshahr Botanical Garden, Nowshahr, Iran Shana Vosough Razavi Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Journal Article 2016 06 14 To judge and to evaluate the ecological characteristics of a region, vegetation is of prime importance. In fact, it reflects the biological reactions against the environmental conditions, plant evolution process and geographical condition of the past. The purpose of this study was to collect and identify aquatic plants of the East and the West of Mazandaran province. Therefore, sampling sites viz. stagnant water stops and irrigated farms were selected, marked out on the map and the specimens were collected. The collected plants were identified using different references in the Herbarium of Nowshahr Botanical Garden as well as Herbarium of Research Institute of Plant Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. In this survey, a total of 126 aquatic plant species, belonging to 44 families were recognized. Among them, 56 species of Dicotyledones, 63 species of Monocotyledones, 4 species of Pteridophytes, 1 species of algae and 2 species of bryophytes were reported. Chorological studies showed that most of the species belonged to the Euro-Siberian, Mediterranean, Irano-Turanian (triregional) and the rest to Pluriregional and Cosmopolitan phytochoria. https://tbj.ui.ac.ir/article_17471_c590fa2794291c85fceac137484457c6.pdf