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Pak. J. Bot., 43(3): 1679-1684, 2011.

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FLORISTIC INVENTORY OF PIR MEHR ALI SHAH ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FARM AT KOONT AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

RAHMATULLAH QURESHI^1*, G.R. BHATTI² AND GHULAM SHABBIR³

Abstract: The aim of present study was to provide botanical inventory of the study area. For this purpose, floristic survey was carried out during April, 2008 to March, 2009. One hundred thirty plant species belonging to 105 genera and 37 families were identified from the study area. Of them, 97 species were of dicot and 33 monocot. Poaceae was found the most dominant family in the flora of the Koont Farm that contributed 23.26% followed by Asteraceae (13.18%), Fabaceae (7.75%), Amaranthaceae, Euphorbiaceae (6.25% each), Solanaceae (4.65%) and Boraginaceae (3.10%), while rest of the families had few species. It has been observed that most of the life-span of recorded taxa was annual natured (52%) followed by perennial (40%) and biennial (8%). Therophytes were the most abundant life form that constituted 43% of the total flora, followed by phanerophytes (19%), cryptophytes (15%), hemicryptophytes (13%) and xeropsammophytes (10%).

¹Department of Botany, Pir  Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University, Murree Road Rawalpindi Pakistan.

²Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, (Mir’s), Sindh, Pakistan.

³Plant Breeding and Genetics, Pir Mehr Ali Arid Agriculture University, Murree Road Rawalpindi Pakistan.