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Asteraceae in the Flora of Sind Valley, Kashmir Himalaya, India


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1 Centre for Biodiversity Studies, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri – 185 234 Jammu & Kashmir, India
2 Department of Phanerogamic Botany, Box 50007, S-10405, Stockholm, Sweden
 

The Sind Valley of Kashmir, lying northeast of the capital city of Srinagar. Due to its forming a connecting link between the temperate Kashmir Valley and the trans-Himalayan cold-arid Zanskar and Ladakh regions, it depicts considerable diversity in its flora. The present paper provides an account on Asteraceae in the flora of Sind Valley. The largest plant family in this area, Asteraceae are here represented by 143 species belonging to 71 genera under 13 tribes in 5 subfamilies. Four subfamilies - Pertyoideae, Mutisioideae, Carduoideae, and Cichorioideae are represented by a single tribe each, respectively with 2 species in 1 genus, 1 species, 21 species in 11 genera, and 37 species in 18 genera; whereas Asteroideae is the largest subfamily with 9 tribes containing altogether 82 species in 40 genera. Three species, viz. Helianthus annuus L., H. tuberosus L., and Chrysanthemum coronarium L. occur in cultivation only. The genera represented by four or more species each are: Artemisia (14), Saussurea (9), Cicerbita (6), Aster and Lactuca (5 each), and Anaphalis, Bidens, Inula and Sonchus (4 each).

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Asteraceae/Compositae, Flora, India, Northwest Himalaya, Kashmir Himalaya, Sind Valley.
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Authors

Gh. Hassan Dar
Centre for Biodiversity Studies, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri – 185 234 Jammu & Kashmir, India
Bertil Nordenstam
Department of Phanerogamic Botany, Box 50007, S-10405, Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract


The Sind Valley of Kashmir, lying northeast of the capital city of Srinagar. Due to its forming a connecting link between the temperate Kashmir Valley and the trans-Himalayan cold-arid Zanskar and Ladakh regions, it depicts considerable diversity in its flora. The present paper provides an account on Asteraceae in the flora of Sind Valley. The largest plant family in this area, Asteraceae are here represented by 143 species belonging to 71 genera under 13 tribes in 5 subfamilies. Four subfamilies - Pertyoideae, Mutisioideae, Carduoideae, and Cichorioideae are represented by a single tribe each, respectively with 2 species in 1 genus, 1 species, 21 species in 11 genera, and 37 species in 18 genera; whereas Asteroideae is the largest subfamily with 9 tribes containing altogether 82 species in 40 genera. Three species, viz. Helianthus annuus L., H. tuberosus L., and Chrysanthemum coronarium L. occur in cultivation only. The genera represented by four or more species each are: Artemisia (14), Saussurea (9), Cicerbita (6), Aster and Lactuca (5 each), and Anaphalis, Bidens, Inula and Sonchus (4 each).

Keywords


Asteraceae/Compositae, Flora, India, Northwest Himalaya, Kashmir Himalaya, Sind Valley.

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