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Khabr National Park and Rouchun wildlife refuge in an overall area of 169200 ha is located in Kerman Province. It has been managed by the departmen of Environment Protection Since 1972. In order to identify
the plant species in this region together with a more thorough study of the flora, as well as making known the position of the region within Iran's phytogeography, plant species were collected from different parts of the
area in the two growing seasons of years 1997,1998. Specifying the biological from and geographycal
distribution of the identified species, vegetation spectrum and the region's geography of vegetation were plotted. The identified plants were arranged in the three groups of trees and shrubs; bushes; and, herbs and
grass species. A total of 451 species and subspecies of the above three groups with their respective numbers of 67, 147 and 237 belonging to 29 genera and 74 families were identified. One hundred and eight species and
subspecies were recorded for the first time. The most diversification in species with a total of 57 species occured in the family of compositae. The vegetation spectrum indicates a dominant hemicryptophyte biological
form with a coverage of 35.9 percent followed by therophyte 24.8%, phanerophyte 19.3%, geophyte 10.4 and
chamaephyte 9.1 % . A 52.3 percent of the identified plants belong to Irano- Turanian, 12.6 percent Saharo-Sindian and 10.2 percent stand in between. Eight percent of the species represent a joint between
Irano-Turan and Mediteranean, whereas the remaining 16.9 either belong to other vegetation regions or constitute joints among several vegetation regions.