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Artemisia chamaemelifolia Vill: a rare species of genus Artemisia (Asteraceae-Anthemideae) now present in the northeast (Gilgit-Baltistan) region of Pakistan

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Artemisia chamaemelifolia Vill. is a perennial herb from the genus Artemisia of the Asteraceae family. This plant is mostly distributed in Armenia, Russia, Georgia and the Eurasian mountains including Cantabrian chain, Spanish Sierra Nevada, the Alps (France and Italy), Azerbaijan, Pyrenees, the Balkan range (Bulgaria), northeast and east Anatolia (Turkey) and the mountain regions of Northern Iran. In continuation of our preceding papers on Northeastern Pakistani Artemisia, here we report the local occurrence of A. chamaemelifolia from Pakistan by critically analyzing its geographical distribution. To date, we have found the species in 4 major areas of Ghizer, Gilgit, Hunza-Nagar and Skardu districts of Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Phylogenetic analysis with maximum likelihood approach using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA showed resemblance of northeastern Pakistani A. chamaemelifolia with other Artemisia species reported from other parts of the world. This species has been listed as critically endangered in the national IUCN red list of many countries. It is recommended that A. chamaemelifolia plant should be included in the rare plant species list in the flora of Pakistan. It will ensure conservation approaches to circumvent its extinction from the country.

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The authors are very thankful to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, Davis USA for providing funds to accomplish this work. The authors are obliged to the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) Pakistan and National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Islamabad Pakistan for providing research facilities. The authors are grateful to Prof. Daniel Potter, Professor of the Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, CA, USA for his scholarly assistance in phylogenetic analysis and language correction. The authors are thankful to Dr. Sumaira Sahreen (Associate Curator) of the Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH) Islamabad Pakistan for her appreciated assistance in herbarium specimen preparation and deposition. The authors acknowledge with great appreciation the support given by Mr. Salman Hussain, Mr. Amir Hussain, Mr. Kacho Zamin Hussain, Mr. Tanseer Hussain, Mr. Amar Abbas, Mr. Kacho Zaman, Mr. Tabeer Hussain and the local inhabitants of the studied area during field visits.

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    Adil Hussain & Syed Ali Imran Bokhari

  3. Department of Plant Biotechnology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology Islamabad, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan

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Hussain, A., Hayat, M.Q. & Bokhari, S.A.I. Artemisia chamaemelifolia Vill: a rare species of genus Artemisia (Asteraceae-Anthemideae) now present in the northeast (Gilgit-Baltistan) region of Pakistan. Biologia 76, 47–54 (2021). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-020-00610-y

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