Description

Northern Pakistan is interpreted here as including three administrative regions: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It is dominated by multiple mountain ranges whose valleys drain, directly or indirectly, into the Indus River. Hazara University, which is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was started in 2002 and its herbarium (HUP) in 2005. Digitization of the herbarium's vascular plants began in 2021 with its records being shared in OpenHerbarium and GBIF. Its online presence is now growing more rapidly than any other Pakistani herbarium. This paper summarizes the taxonomic diversity and geographic origin of its monocot holdings in 2023. In 2023, the Hazara University Herbarium held 744 monocot specimens from Northern Pakistan. They belonged to 9 orders, 23 families, 126 genera, amd 299 species. Most specimens belonged to the Poales, with many more belonging to the Poaceae than to the Cyperaceae, the family with the next best representation in the collection. Two orders, Acorales and Dioscoreales were represented by only one specimen each. Slightly more than half the species were represented by only one specimen; eleven species were represented by 9 or more specimens. Comparison with a checklist developed from multiple sources, including a GBIF download, revealed that HUP did not have any reprsentatives of five families that other sources report as occurring in Northern Pakistan: Juncaginaceae, Potamogetonaceae, Nartheciaceae, Pontederiaceae, and Musaceae.Most of the herbarium's specimens were from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the university's home province, the fewest from Gilgit-Baltistan. The best represented districts (level 3 regions) were Districts Swat, Chitral, and Lower Dir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Neelum in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, all of which are known for their scenic beauty and floristic wealth. The best represented district of Gilgit-Baltistan was Hunza which is home to three passes through the Karakoram Mountains.

Author ORCID Identifier

Mary Barkworth http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9785-1538

Abdul Majid https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5471-1500

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Publication Date

2-12-2024

Publisher

Utah State University

Methodology

Data were transcribed from the labels on herbarium sheets into a spreadsheet. They were then uploaded to OpenHerbarium.org, a site that shares, displays, and visualizes occurrence data from collections of plants, fungi, and algae. The spreadsheet was designed to enable sharing the data using the Darwin Core Standard for sharing occurrence data. Geographic coordinates were added to records that did not have them, using other information on the label. The data in this file were downloaded on December 20, 2024.

Scientfic Names

Poales, Poaceae, Cyperaceae, Acorales, Dioscoreales, Juncaginaceae, Potamogetonaceae, Nartheciaceae, Pontederiaceae, Musaceae

Referenced by

Liaqat et al. (to be submitted) Diversity and distribution of monocots in Northern Pakistan: a case study from the Hazara University Herbarium, Biodiversity Data Journal.

Start Date

2021

End Date

2-2024

Location

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the three northern provinces of Pakistan.

Language

eng

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Biology

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https://doi.org/10.26078/3e24-aad0

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