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| Image number: | 2017 |
| Feature : | ephemeral vegetation |
| Grouping : | desert vegetation |
| Discipline : | botany |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Wadi Sodmein |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Shortly after rains, ephemerical vegetation appears at the edge of the wadi. Flowering and dispersion of pollen happens in a few hours or days. Higher on the slope, the vegetation is already wilted. Withered plants become brown, break of and are carried away by wind and water. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 2017. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |