Tree Flora of the Botanical Garden and two campuses of Punjab University Lahore Pakistan

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¹Ecology and Evolution Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590 Pakistan 2The University of Sydney, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Camden, 2570 Australia 3Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan 4Department of Botany, I.B. (PG) College, Panipat, Haryana, India Iram Mujahid Iqbal: iram.phd.botany@pu.edu.pk

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Abstract

The living collection of plants in botanical gardens and academic

institutions play an important role in scientific research, education, and

conservation. The University of the Punjab (PU) is one of the oldest and

largest seat of higher education learning in Pakistan with its two main

academic campuses located in the city of Lahore. Besides several oncampus

plantations, PU has a dedicated botanical garden established in

1963. We documented all the tree species of the botanical garden and

both of the campuses through extensive surveys during 2014-15. A total

of 220 woody plant species belonging to 157 genera of 55 plant families

were being reported. The major plant families in terms of species

contribution were Fabaceae (34), Moraceae (19), Myrtaceae (14),

Rutaceae (12) and Euphorbiaceae (11). The PU botanical garden

represents 87% of the total tree collection of both the campuses. The

tree flora of PU is a representative of the whole Lahore district and about

half of the country. Some rare and new tree species in Botanical garden

can be added into the flora of Pakistan.

Abstract