Plant Collection with the Kedarnath Parbat Expedition

The paper gives an account of the collection of plants made by the author who was a botanist member of the Kedarnath Parbat Expedition organised by the Gangotri Exploration Committee, Calcutta in Sept.-Oct., 1967. The area under study lies between 30°80'-31°25'N and 78°60'-79°45'E and includes the Bhagirathi valley, Gangotri glacier, Tapovan, Sivalinga Base, and the glacier regions around the Kedarnath Dome, covering an altitude range of 1500 m to 5500 m. During the stay with the expedition nearly 1375 specimens comprising 187 species of flowering plants, 6 species of Gymnosperms and 8 species of Pteridophytes were collected. Notes on the places of special interest are also incorporated in brief in the paper.