Biodiversity of South Western Morocco
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Why teline.fr?
The name of the site is Teline. It is initially the occasion to evoke an endemic leguminous plant of the Western Anti-Atlas and second and above all to pay homage to our regretted colleague and friend C. Raynaud who proposed the new combination: Teline segonnei (Mayor) C. Raynaud (= Adenocarpus segonnei Mayor).
About the author
I was from 1969 to 1979 a lecturer and a researcher at the Scientific Institute of Rabat (Morocco), an institution which aims at improving the knowledge of the biodiversity of the country. As a botanist and biologist, I was led to make an inventory of the Plant Communities of the Souss basin where the argan tree, a member of the tropical family Sapotacaea, is widely distributed.
With this site, it is the occasion to express my gratitude to all those - too many to be named - which enabled me to achieve my task by facilitating my researches into the south Western Morocco.
I would like to show a particular gratitude to two colleagues and friends - A. El Aboudi and F. Msanda - who travelled with me in the field during these last 20 years, without their help I could not have known south-west Morocco as well as I do.
Since then, the Moroccan colleagues have taken over, with the concern of perfecting the obtained knowledge in the fields of ecology and floristic. The following publications should be praised:
- 1998: "Inventory of the rare vascular plants, threatened or endemic of Morocco"
- 1999: the first tome of "Practical Flora of Morocco"
- 2005: the first volume of "New inventory of the vascular plants of Morocco"
- 2007: the second tome of "Practical Flora of Morocco"
- 2008: the second volume of "New inventory of the vascular plants of Morocco"
All these works were very awaited: thank you very much to the colleagues who work relentlessly to make us discover the biodiversity of Morocco.
Jean-Paul Peltier