medicinal species of mountain’s kelavs, scientifically named (kelussia odoratissmia mozaffar.) is an endemic species in iran. kelussia odoratissima is a perennial species and belongs to the umbelliferae. from the ancient times, the local and nomad societies had believed that the species traditionally have anti-ache, anti-inflation and anti-cough effects. seed and root of this species are boiled...

During an investigation on pteridophytes (ferns) of Guilan province (N Iran), 402 specimens were studied. Of these, 44 species, under 21 genera, belonging to 13 families, were identified. Based on the approved instruction given by the "International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)", after performing the filtering stage, 17 species were identified as endangered...

background & aim: the present study was to identify the medicinal plant species and introduced as one of the key priority areas for conservation and determination of endangered species were done. experimental: the method of plant collection in this region was classical method of regional plant taxonomic studies. collected plants were recognized and determined families, genera and species o...

The recent discovery of a new species of land iguana in the Galapagos (Tzika et al. 2008; Gentile et al. 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009) is indeed an exciting novelty, of great interest to all zoologists and evolutionary biologists. This species being apparently represented only by a very small population with a very limited range, it was described as a new taxon following an unusual procedure: no ...

In this paper, five species of the agaric fungi viz., Entoloma griseoluridum, E. niphoides, Limacella ochraceolutea, Mycena clavicularisand M. acicula belonging to family Amanitaceae, Entolomataceae and Mycenaceae, are reported for the first time for Iranian mycobiota. Limacella ochraceolutea is the first species of fungi belonging to genus Limacella in Iran.Because L. ochraceolutea is a rare s...