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Studies on the Vascular Flora of Sultan's Battery and Chedaleth Forest Ranges, Kozhikode District, Kerala


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This paper deals with all the vascular plants of Sultan's Battery and Chedaleth ranges, Kozhikode Dt., Kerala collected during the year 1964-65. The ranges lie between 8° & 12°N and 76° & 80°E. Various types of vegetation ranging from tropical evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist and dry deciduous to scrub are seen. Altogether 528 plants, spread over 87 families and 370 taxa are enumerated. From a careful study of literature and collections made earlier by others and presently kept in the herbarium of the Southern Circle, Botanical Survey of India, twelve new records for the area are discovered.
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J. L. Ellis
Botanical Survey of India, Coimbatore, India
M. S. Swaminathan
Botanical Survey of India, Coimbatore, India
M. Chandrabose
Botanical Survey of India, Coimbatore, India

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This paper deals with all the vascular plants of Sultan's Battery and Chedaleth ranges, Kozhikode Dt., Kerala collected during the year 1964-65. The ranges lie between 8° & 12°N and 76° & 80°E. Various types of vegetation ranging from tropical evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist and dry deciduous to scrub are seen. Altogether 528 plants, spread over 87 families and 370 taxa are enumerated. From a careful study of literature and collections made earlier by others and presently kept in the herbarium of the Southern Circle, Botanical Survey of India, twelve new records for the area are discovered.