Pak. J. Bot., 46(6): 1945-1954, 2014. FLORISTIC DIVERSITY OF SANTH SAROOLA, KOTLI SATTIAN, RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN HUMAIRA SHAHEEN, RAHMATULLAH QURESHI*, IRAM ZAHRA, MUBASHRAH MUNIR AND MUHAMMAD ILYAS Department of Botany, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. *Corresponding authors e-mail:
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[email protected] Abstract The objective of present study was to record the existing flora of Santh Saroola, Kotli Sattian, Pakistan. For this purpose, field surveys were conducted in August 2009 to July, 2010. A total of 186 plants species belonging to 148 genera and 63 families were identified. The largest number of species was contributed by Poaceae (24 spp., 12.90%), followed by Asteraceae with 20 species (10.75%), Fabaceae (16 spp., 8.60%), Euphorbiaceae (8 spp., 4.30%), Lamiaceae & Solanaceae (7 spp., 3.76% each) and Brassicaceae (6 spp., 3.23%); while rest of 56 families possessed species with the range of 1-5. With reference to life forms, Therophytes were found very frequent in terms of flora (45.99%), followed by Phanerophytes (29.95%), Hemicryptophytes (18.18%), Chaemophytes (4.81%) and Cryptophytes (1.07%). Most of the plants present in this area were herbaceous (89) natured, follow by shrub (38), grasses (24), trees (17) and climbers (11). Key words: Floristic diversity, Santh Saroola, Kotli Sattian, Life forms. Introduction (North-West Rajhistan) India was done by (Singh & Sindhu, 1991). They reported a total of 512 plant A flora consists of description of all the wild or species belonging to 310 genera distributed among 85 cultivated plants contained in the country in question, so families of flowering plants.