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TAXONOMIC STUDIES OF THE CLASS ZYGNEMOPHYCEAE SHAMEEL FROM NORTH-EASTERN AREAS OF PAKISTAN

A. ZARINA^1*, MASUD-UL-HASAN² AND MUSTAFA SHAMEEL³

Abstract: Five species of the algal genera, Hallasia Rosenvinge and Mougeotia C. A. Agardh have been collected from various freshwater habitats of Kasur, Lahore, Sargodha and Sialkot districts of Punjab Province of Pakistan and Neelum Valley of Azad Kashmir during March and October 2004 and taxonomically investigated. Although, all the species have been described for the first time from their area of collection, most of them are first reports from Pakistan. They were mostly found in spring.

¹Department of Botany, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Campus, Karachi-75300;

²Department of Botany, Govt. College University, Kachehri Road, Lahore-54000; ³Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan