• MANINDER

Presently, intensive and extensive floristic surveys have been carried out to study the floristic diversity of holy city Amritsar. Amritsar, which is a city and district of Punjab in north-western India is also a centre of Sikhism and the site of the Sikhs principal place of worship-the Harmandir Sahib or Golden temple. Amritsar is a centre for the textile and chemical industries and also engages in food milling and processing, silk weaving, tanning, canning, and the manufacture of machinery. Present investigations show that the members belonging to family Leguminosae are dominant in this area followed by members of family Compositae and Gramineae. The ratio of number of families of monocots and dicots is 1: 9. The ratio of genera of monocots and dicots is 1:11. The ratio of monocots and dicots species is 1: 11.3.

Floristic diversity, Amritsar, dicots, monocots, herbarium

"EVALUATION OF FLORISTIC DIVERSITY OF DISTRICT AMRITSAR, PUNJAB", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.127-127, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808497.pdf

"EVALUATION OF FLORISTIC DIVERSITY OF DISTRICT AMRITSAR, PUNJAB", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp127-127, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808497.pdf