Published August 12, 2014 | Version v1
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Biological Spectrum and Ethnomedicianl Uses of Plants in Chellah District Muzaffarabad Azad Kashmir Pakistan

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  • 1. Department of Botany, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.

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 The recent study was carried out on medicinal plants of Chellah District Muzaffarabad Azad Jammu and Kashmir to find out life form and leaf size spectra and also to explorer folk uses of plants of that area. The 30 plants species were collected of medicinal values which were belonging to 16 families. The folk uses of plants were recorded from local inhabitant through questionnaire. The plants species were used for treating various ailments such as malaria, diarrhea, dysentery etc by the local inhabitants. Biological spectrum explored that higher number of Therophytes and low number of trees indicated that vegetation that plants communities were under high biotic pressure due to anthropogenic activities.  

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