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Plant Science Today (PST)

Special Section: New Frontiers in Cryptogamic Botany

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016)

An updated checklist of Pteridophytes of district Mansehra, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa-Pakistan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2016.3.2.220
Submitted
17 March 2016
Published
22-06-2016

Abstract

Critical examination of the pteridophytes of District Mansehra based on our own field surveys and previous literature as well revealed the occurrence of total 130 taxa distributed in 34 genera and 17 families. Of these, 23taxa are new records for the study area, while Polystichum obliquum (D. Don) T. Moore  is reported for the first time for Pakistan. Nomenclatural reassessment of previously reported taxa suggests that 23 taxa are now synonyms. Habitat-wise, 68 taxa are terrestrial, while 54 are epilithic, 5exist as epiphytes and the remaining 3 are aquatic.

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