Some ethnoecological aspects of the plants of Qalagai hills, Kabal valley, Swat, Pakistan
2013
Ilyas, M. (Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture Univ., Rawalpindi (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany) | Qureshi, R. (Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture Univ., Rawalpindi (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany) | Shinwari, Z.K. (Quaid-i-Azam Univ., Islamabad (Pakistan). Dept. of Biotechnology) | Arshad, M. (Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture Univ., Rawalpindi (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany) | Mirza, S.N. (Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture Univ., Rawalpindi (Pakistan). Dept. of Forestry and Range Management) | Zia-ul-Haq (Government Post Graduate Jahanzeb Coll., Swat (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany)
Being a remote, hilly and less accessible area, the people of Qalagai hills are dependent for their survival on the existing plant resources and thus have rich ethnoecological knowledge. A total of 209 species of vascular plants belonging to 167 genera and 75 families were identified in the area. Of them, 194 species were used by the indigenous people for 42 different local use classes. Most of the species were used as a source of medicine (92 spp.), followed by fodder and forage (58 spp.), fuel wood (29 spp.), wild fruits (25 spp.), vegetable (14 spp.), ornamental plants (11 spp.), and ethnoveterinary purpose (10 spp.). Poaceae was the largest family that contributed 22 species, followed by Asteraceae (16 spp.), Rosaceae (15 spp.), Lamiaceae (14 spp.), Polygonaceae and Ranunculaceae (7 spp. each) and Pteridaceae (6 spp.). Nanophylls and Microphylls were the dominant leaf size classes, while Therophytes and Hemicryptophytes were the dominant life forms.
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