Full Length Research Paper

Taxonomic diversity of stomata in dicot flora of a district tank (N.W.F.P.) in Pakistan

Khalid Ahmad¹, Mir Ajab Khan¹, Mushtaq Ahmad¹, Muhammad Zafar¹*, Muhammad Arshad² and Farooq Ahmad¹

¹Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.

²Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: catlacatla@hotmail.com.

Accepted 30 January, 2009

A total of 36 dicot species distributed in 34 genera and 20 families were investigated for stomatal diversity. Seven types of stomata were found in which amphianisocytic was the dominant one found in 12 species while staurocytic and diacytic were found in 7 and 6 species respectively. In 7 species two and in one species three different types of stomata were found.

Key words: Dicots, stomata, district tank.