فیزیولوژی محیطی گیاهی (Dec 2008)
The chorology and identification of medical, rare and endemic species of Doo Abe Aleshtar area Lourestan province, Iran
Abstract
Doo Abe ecology covers an area of 200 km 2 situated in the northwest of Aleshtar. The ecology area presents a variety of habitats, including cliffs and rocky outcrops, piedmont plains, alluvial plains, valleys and aquatic habitats. Minimum and maximum elevations of study area are 1500and 3500m, respectively. Mean annual precipitation of the area is 530mm and mean annual temperature is 15.8C˚. In this study considered the plant biodiversity, medical, rare and endemic species of Doo Abe Aleshtar area. These species collected and identified by current ways in floristic considerations. The flora consideration showed 206 plant species are belong to 40 families and 139 genera. There are 70 medical species in this area. Asteraceae with 33 species, Lamiaceae with 25 species and fabaceae with 20 species are main families of this area. The Life form study using Raunkier method showed the most biological spectrumare are therophytes (40.5%) and hemicriptophytes (29.3%). The threat species identified according to International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources and by using Red data Book of Iran. There are three classes of Vulnerable, Lower Risk and data deficient in this area. The great number of them is Lower Risk 5.85% (12 species). The area is consist of 26 species of Iran endemic. According to the chorology consideration of this area 50.5% of plants are belong to Irano-Turanian region.
