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Weedy Plants of Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, Selangor

M. Asyraf and M. Mashhor

Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 24, Issue 1, April 2001

Keywords: Aquatic, terrestrial, weeds, Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve

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The Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve has possibly been under constant threat from invasive species especially the weeds from surrounding development sites. The total number of weed taxa identified from this forest were 33 species, 29 genera and 13 families. Of these taxa, only two species aquatic weeds vizs., Ceratopteris thalictroides (Parkeriaceae) and Hydrilla verticillata (Hydrocharitaceae). The most dominant terrestrial weedy species in this forest were Clidemia hirta (Melastomataceae) and Chromalaena odorata (Compositae). All grasses and sedges spesies were recorded at the disturbed sampling sites only. Mimosa pigra was only found at the most disturbed site bordering the forest.

ISSN 1511-3701

e-ISSN 2231-8542

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JTAS-0210-2001

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