On the flora of Kuwait Islands

The present study deals with the flora of seven out of nine Kuwait islands. Warba and Bubiyan are excluded because of inaccessibility due to military operations. A list of 138 flowering plant species (60 perennials and 78 ephemerals), belonging to 32 families is given. The families number of species with the greatest representation were Poaceae (23), Chenopodiaceae (13), Asteraceae (14), and Fabaceae (13). Therophytes and chamaephytes were the most frequent life forms. From the phytogeographical point of view, the monoregional Saharo-Arabian species constituted 22 % of the other flora. Species were primarily Saharo-Arabian but in some cases biregional or pluriregional species accounted for 57.2 % of the total. The major phytogeographical categories with Saharo-Arabian affinities were Irano-Turanian and Mediterranean