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Thirty-Three New Additions to The Flora of Mizoram, India


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1 Department of Botany, Budge Budge College, Budge Budge, Kolkata-700137, West Bengal, India
2 Botanical Survey of India, CGO Complex, Sector-1, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700064, West Bengal, India
3 Department of Botany and Forestry, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore-721102, West Bengal, India
 

Thirty-three taxa of angiosperms which were collected from Phawngpui (Blue Mountain) National Park, are reported as new distributional records for the flora of Mizoram, India. Among those taxa, eight genera like Acalypha L., Agrimonia L., Lecanthus Wedd., Pegia Colebr., Richardia L., Stellaria L., Theropogon Maxim. and Veronica L. are recorded first time from the state. For each species accepted name, basionym, brief description, phenology, distribution and specimen examined data has been provided.

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Thirty-Three Angiosperms, New Additions, Phawngpui National Park, Mizoram.
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Authors

Samiran Panday
Department of Botany, Budge Budge College, Budge Budge, Kolkata-700137, West Bengal, India
Bipin Kumar Sinha
Botanical Survey of India, CGO Complex, Sector-1, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700064, West Bengal, India
Prakash Karmakar
Department of Botany and Forestry, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore-721102, West Bengal, India

Abstract


Thirty-three taxa of angiosperms which were collected from Phawngpui (Blue Mountain) National Park, are reported as new distributional records for the flora of Mizoram, India. Among those taxa, eight genera like Acalypha L., Agrimonia L., Lecanthus Wedd., Pegia Colebr., Richardia L., Stellaria L., Theropogon Maxim. and Veronica L. are recorded first time from the state. For each species accepted name, basionym, brief description, phenology, distribution and specimen examined data has been provided.

Keywords


Thirty-Three Angiosperms, New Additions, Phawngpui National Park, Mizoram.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo%2Fv62%2F2020%2F153869