Abstract
The present study reveals palynomorphic characterization of woody and herbaceous flora of Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore. In this respect, 67 plant species including 56 dicots, 10 monocots and 1 gymnosperm belonging to 40 different families have been studied by using light microscopy. The present study demonstrates that the pollen morphology of herbaceous and woody flora of LUMS exhibits a huge diversity. The pollen features studied includes structure, volume, aperture, polar length, equatorial diameter, P/E ratio, shape, size, aperture and tectum. Pollen shape was mostly prolate spheroidal but oblate spheroidal, prolate, sub prolate, spheroidal and tricolpate were also observed in some species. Pollen aperture varied from porate to colpate and some species were inaperturate. Pollen tectum has been found reticulate in most species, while psilate, scabrate, verrucate, echinate and striate were also observed. Furthermore, the family name and common name have also been studied. Maximum pollen size is 176.92 µm found in Pinus caraniensis (pinaceae) and minimum pollen size is 88.87µm observed in Morus alba (Moraceae). This work is anticipated to be advantageous in documentation for taxonomic recognition of the plants of Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore (LUMS).
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