Abstract

Ashfaq Nazir, Riffat NaseemMalik and HamayunShaheen

 The flora of Sarsawa Hills, District Kotli, Azad Kashmir consisted of 40 plant species belonging to 24 families. Of them, 18 families were Dicots; 4 Monocots and 1 Pteridophytes. Gymnosperms were represented by Pinaceae only. Poaceae had 12 species which was followed by Euphorbiaceae (3 spp.). Acanthaceae, Leguminoseae and Urticaceae had 2 species each while remaining families had single species. The biological spectrum showed that hemicryptophytes (27.5%) and megaphanerophytes (25%) were the most abundant, followed by nanophanerophytes (22.5%) and therophytes (17.5%). Geophytes (5%) chemophytes (2.5%)had low occurrence in the investigated area. Leaf spectra investigation revealed thatleptophylls were dominant (40%), followed by nanophylls (22.5%), microphylls (22.5%), and mesophylls (15%). No megaphylls were reported in the investigated area due to severe drought condition.