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TRADITIONAL USES OF ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT PLANTS OF CHITRAL DISTRICT, MALAKAND DIVISION, NWFP, PAKISTAN
Abstract
Chitral District is situated between 350 2' to 360 50° North latitude and 700 2' to 730 53 East longitude in Malakand Division of N.W.F.P. The altitude ranges from 700 meter at Arundo to 8500 meters at Tirich Mir, the highest peak of Hindukush and one of the highest in the world. Consequently, it has many climatic and vegetational zones or biomes. All these varied ecological zones have wide varicty of plants Information regarding of traditional uses of coonomically important plants was obtained from local on questionnaire during fieldwork in different flowering seasons during | 998-2000. As a result recorded 35 plant species having well defined traditional uses over generations. This diversity was due to the difference in climate, altitute, microclimates and other topographic conditions. Hopefully this rescarch paper will generate wide interest in protecting and preserving plant diversity of economically important species. It was also recorded that majority of plants are being utilized in indigenous medicine for remedy of various diseases.
