PJB-2020-457
ASSESSMENT OF THE FLORISTIC COMPOSITION AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERICS OF THE FLORA OF BADABER PESHAWAR, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
Laila Farooq
Abstract
For the purpose of making a floristic checklist and to evaluvate the ecological characteristics of flora of Badhaber, District Peshawar, a research work was performed during 2017-2018. The entire floristic checklist of the investigated area was constituted of 136 species belonging to 50 families. Of them, 48 families were dicots, 1 family of monocot and pteridophytes each. Among all families Poaceae with (20 species), Asteraceae (14 species) and Mimosaceae (6 species) were recorded the dominant one. Herbs were the recorded leading fraction of floristic composition which contributed 65.4% of the total flora. The dominant life forms were therophytes (72 species, 52.9%) and mesophanerophytes (23 species, 16.9%), followed by nanophanerophytes with (15 species, 11.0%), hemicryptophytes (9 species, 6.61%), chamaephytes and geophytes (each with 6 species, 4.41%) and microphanerophytes (5 species, 3.67%). The leaf size spectrum was dominated by microphylls with (47 species, 34.5%) and mesophylls with (30 species, 22.1%), followed by nanophyll (29 species, 21.3%), leptophyll (16 species, 11.7%) and macrophyll (11 species, 8.1%). Megaphylls and aphyllous were the rare leaf size characteristics in the area. Similarly simple leaves with 86 species (63.23%) were the prevalent leaf shapes followed by compound leaves with 29 species (21.23%) and dissected leaves with 19 species (13.97%). The plant species diversity in the area are often subjected to overcutting, grazing, habitat conservation and other anthropogenic activities. Sustainable utilization and ethics of conservation must be produced.
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