Floristic Composition and Biological Spectrum of Palangzai Miran Shah Village, District North Waziristan (Merged Areas), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Floristic Composition and Biological Spectrum of Palangzai Miran Shah Village, District North Waziristan (Merged Areas), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Dilawar Jan1*, Muhammad Farooq2, Lal Badshah3, Mehboob Khan4, Salim Saifullah2 and Sanam Zarif2
A view of village Palangzai.
Map of Village Palangzai, North Waziristan Agency. Country: Pakistan, Established: 1910, Headquarter: Miran Shah, Total area: 4,707 km2 (1,817 sq mi), Population (1998): 361,246; Density: 77/km2 (200/sq mi); Main Language(s): Pashto, Urdu. However, for quick results of the leaf sizes of plants in the field, Raunkiaer (1934) diagrams (Figure 3) was used.
Leaf size classes.
Less than a, Leptophyll (L); between A and B, Nanophyll (N); between B and C, Microphyll (Mi); between C and 2 times D, Mesophyll (Me); between 2 times D and 8 times the size of the diagram as bounded by the black line, Megaphyll (Mg) (Cottam and Curtis, 1950).
