Ecological Evaluation of Some Rangeland Plants of Harboi Hills, Kalat, Balochistan by Mufakhirah Jan Durrani
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2000
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Department of Botany
Abstract
The oristic, vegetation structure, productivity and chemical evaluation of plants of
HarboiHills rangelands of Kalat were determined from 1997 to 1999. There were 202
species of 45 plant families with scattered Juniper forest. Asteraceae, Papilionaceae,
Poaceae, Brassicaceae and Lamiaceae were important families in the area. Artemisia
maritima, Sophora griffithii, Hertia intrmedia, Nepetajuncea, Astragalus Spp and
Convolvulus leiocalycinus were most common shrubs. Along the water courses,
Perovskia abrotanides and Verbascum erianthum were common. Pennisetum orientale,
Bromus tectorum, Bromus Sericeus, Shismus arabicus, Poa bulbosa, Piptatherum
vicarium, Stipa pennata, Tetrapogonvillosus, Cy‘ymbopogonjwarancusa, Melica
persica, Aristida Spp and Phacelurus Speciosus were most common grasses. Biological
spectrum showed that therophytic and hemicryptophytic life forms and nanophylls,
microphylls and leptophylls leaf sizes were dominant in the area.