National Red Data Books
Floras
Flora of Cyprus. D. Meikle. 2 vols. 1977 & 1985.
Pp. 1968. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
An illustrated Flora of North Cyprus. D.E. Viney. 2 vols, 1994 &
1996. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag, Liechtenstein.
Cyprus Plant List. F.H. Perring. 2001. Wildlife Travel, Peterborough.
Plants of Cyprus: Walking around the Cape Greco. E.M. Efthimiou. 2001.
Pp. 413. Paralimni, Farmagusta.
Vegetation
Dominant natural vegetation outside agricultural land is heavily grazed garigue, with occasional patches of taller maquis. Remaining forest restricted to the mountains: the precipitous limestone Kyrenia (northern) range supports large stands of Pinus brutia/Cupressus sempervirens forest on the upper slopes and well-developed maquis on much of the northern slope; the predominantly igneous Troödos (southern) range is also well forested with Pinus brutia on lower slopes, replaced by Pinus nigra ssp. pallasiana at higher levels. The Troödos also supports many Cypriot endemics. Other important areas of floristic diversity: Akamas and Karpas Peninsulas, in extreme north-west and north-east of the island respectively. The few remaining wetlands, especially near Phasouri and Syrianokhori, support an interesting aquatic flora. (Paragraph reproduced with permission from Davis, S.D. et al. (1986). Plants in Danger: What do we know? IUCN, Gland, Switzerland).
Plant Conservation Programmes
Key Institutions
Environment
Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Loukis
Akritas Ave., CY-1411 Nicosia.
Cyprus Conservation
Foundation, P.O. Box 50257, CY-3602 Limassol. The foundation also
runs the Environmental Studies Centre,
P.O. Box 74, Kritou Terra, CY-8724 Paphos.
The
North Cyprus Herbarium, Alevkaya Forest Station
Acknowledgement
Last updated October 2005.
1682 vascular plant species. Approx. 140 endemic plants
Extinct: 0
