Additions to flora of Pakistan: five new records in the genera Lepidium, Shangwua and Solanum from Swat, Malakand, Dir and Chitral districts | [Pakistan Journal of Botany • 2025]

Author(s):

1. ROOHUL AMIN: Department of Botany, Government Afzal Khan Lala Post-Graduate College, Matta, Swat, Pakistan; Department of Botany, Islamia College, Peshawar, Pakistan

2. AMIR SULTAN: National Herbarium of Pakistan (Stewart Collection), PARC – National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan

3. AMJAD KHAN: National Herbarium of Pakistan (Stewart Collection), PARC – National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan

4. NAVEED AKHTAR: Department of Botany, Islamia College, Peshawar, Pakistan

5. SAYED AFZAL SHAH: Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Medical Sciences, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

6. MAHRINE RASHID: National Herbarium of Pakistan (Stewart Collection), PARC – National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan

7. RAEES KHAN: National Herbarium of Pakistan (Stewart Collection), PARC – National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan

8. SHAZIA ERUM: National Herbarium of Pakistan (Stewart Collection), PARC – National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan

Abstract:

Lepidium bonariense L., L. campestre (L.) W.T. Aiton, Shangwua masarica (Lipsky) Yu J. Wang & Raab-Struabe, Solanum nitidibaccatum Bitter and S. sisymbriifolium Lamarck are newly recorded from Pakistan. Illustrations and a distribution map of the newly recorded species are provided.

Page(s): 1059-1063

DOI: 10.30848/PJB2025-3(6)

Published: Journal: Pakistan Journal of Botany, Volume: 57, Issue: 3, Year: 2025

Keywords:

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , invasive plants , campestre , Shangwua masarica , Lepidium bonariense , Solanum nitidibaccatum , Lepdium , Solanum sisymbriifolium

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