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Phytoclimatic spectrum of Weeds flora of Toormang Valley, Dir Lower, Koh-E-Hindukush Range, Pakistan
Author(s) -
Wisal Muhammad Khan,
Muhammad Idrees,
Arshad Iqbal,
Haroon Khan,
Khawaja Shafique Ahmad,
Nosheen Umar,
Ghazala Yasmeen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pakistan journal of weed science research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2225-7942
pISSN - 1815-1094
DOI - 10.28941/pjwsr.v27i4.957
Subject(s) - biology , botany , caryophyllaceae , balsaminaceae , apiaceae , boraginaceae , botánica , impatiens , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , cultivar
Four season’s data of floristic structure and biological spectrum of Toormang Valley, Dir lower was explored during 2018-2019. The flora comprised 238 species, 164 genera associated with 60 families. The most prevailing family was Asteraceae with 42 species (17.64%), trailed by Rosaceae 16 (6.72%), Brassicaceae 13(5.46%), Solanaceae 11 (4.62%), Papilionaceae 10 (4.20%), Apiaceae, and Poaceae each with 9(3.78%), Lamiaceae 8 (3.36%), Boraginaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Moraceae each contributed by 7 species (2.94%), Amaranthaceae and Cucurbitaceae each consisted of 6 species (2.52%), Caryophyllaceae and Chenopodiaceae each with 5(2.10%) while rest of 23 families contributed by 01 species each (0.42%). The largest genera were Euphorbia (6 species), followed by Sonchus and Medicago (4 species) each. Therophytes were the dominant with 102 species (42.85%), followed by nanophanerophytes with 27 (11.34%), hemicryptophytes with 25 (10.50%), chamaephytes with 20(8.40%), microphanerophytes with 18(7.56%), megaphanerophytes with 16(6.72%), geophytes with 15 (6.30%), mesophanerophytes with 14 (5.88%) and parasite with 1 species (0.42%). The observations on leaf size revealed that microphyll was the prevailing class with 73 species (30.67%), followed by mesophyll 69(28.99%), nanophyll 60 (25.21%), leptophyll 23(9.66%), macrophyll 8(3.36%), megaphylly 4(1.1.68%) and aphyllous with 1 species (0.42%). Simple lamina species 154 while 5 species have spiny lamina shape.

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