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Updated: 09-12-10

FLORISTIC INVENTORY OF PAI FOREST, NAWAB SHAH, SINDH, PAKISTAN

RAHMATULLAH QURESHI^* AND G.R. BHATTI

Abstract: The main objective of this study was to record the existing floral diversity of Pai forest, Nawab Shah, Sindh, Pakistan. For this purpose, field surveys were conducted in September, 2006 and March, 2009. A total of 93 plant species belonging to 67 genera and 30 families were identified. Poaceae was the largest family that contributed 14 species (15.05%), followed by Amaranthaceae with 7 species (7.53%), Capparidaceae and Tiliaceae with 5 spp., (5.38% each); while 7 families contributed 4 species (4.30%). The most common life form class of the existing flora was Phanerophyte with the large number of species (37), followed by Therophyte (33), Chaemophytes (12), Hemicryptophyte (6) and Cryptophyte (3).  The anthropogenic activities coupled with irrigation water deficit and allelopathic behavior of alien species (Prosopis juliflora) led to decline the natural ecosystem of this plantation.

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

Department of Botany, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan

^*Corresponding author E-mail:  rahmatullahq@yahoo.com

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