Saharo-Arabian region

This article is about the floristic region of the Middle East and North Africa. For the geopolitical region, see Middle East and North Africa.

In botanical geography, the Saharo-Arabian region is a floristic region in the Holarctic kingdom, covered by hot deserts, semideserts and savanna. The region occupies the temperate parts of the Sahara desert, Sinai Peninsula, Arabian Peninsula (geographically defined), Southern Palestine and Lower Mesopotamia.

The region was proposed by Armen Takhtajan.

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