New plant records for West Pakistan-I
New plant records for West Pakistan-I
Mohammad Amin Siddiqi
ABSTRACT
NEW PLANT RECORDS FOR WEST PAKISTAN-I
Mohammad Amin Siddiqi
Stewart Herbarium, Gordon College, Rawalpindi
About:
The present paper is the first of the series dealing with the author’s studies of the Flora of West Pakistan. Most of the material on which this paper is based was collected or scrutinized by him within recent years and is lodged in the Stewart Herbarium, Gordon College, Rawalpindi. It deals with two plant species which have not been previously described in Hooker’s Flora of British India or any other regional or local floras of this sub-continent. These two plants belong to a very small genus Emex australis with only two species, of the family Polygonaceae. One of the species is Entex australis and the other is Emex spinosus. The first one is native of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa and the second one comes from N. Africa and the Mediterranean coastal regions. It is a strange coincidence that both the species have been found growing not far from each other. E. australis was found growing in Risalpur near Nowshera in a field and E. spinosus was collected from a field between Akora Khattak and Khairabad, Peshawar District N. W. F. P. For the reference of Pakistani research workers generic description, key to the species, and detailed descriptions of the plants with their drawings have been given. Modern nomenclature has been used and the synonyms from various floristic works have also been cited.
Mohammad Amin Siddiqi
Stewart Herbarium, Gordon College, Rawalpindi
About:
The present paper is the first of the series dealing with the author’s studies of the Flora of West Pakistan. Most of the material on which this paper is based was collected or scrutinized by him within recent years and is lodged in the Stewart Herbarium, Gordon College, Rawalpindi. It deals with two plant species which have not been previously described in Hooker’s Flora of British India or any other regional or local floras of this sub-continent. These two plants belong to a very small genus Emex australis with only two species, of the family Polygonaceae. One of the species is Entex australis and the other is Emex spinosus. The first one is native of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa and the second one comes from N. Africa and the Mediterranean coastal regions. It is a strange coincidence that both the species have been found growing not far from each other. E. australis was found growing in Risalpur near Nowshera in a field and E. spinosus was collected from a field between Akora Khattak and Khairabad, Peshawar District N. W. F. P. For the reference of Pakistani research workers generic description, key to the species, and detailed descriptions of the plants with their drawings have been given. Modern nomenclature has been used and the synonyms from various floristic works have also been cited.
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June 1973
Vol. 23, Iss. 2
