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Flowering Plants and Ferns of North Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh, India


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The paper gives an account of the recent collection of flowering plants and ferns from the Garhwal Himalayas, made by the author during the years 1957 to 1959 in which nearly 1500 gatherings were made which on study yielded 738 species. The area covered by this study lies between 30° and 31° N., and 79° and 80° E., and includes the Alaknanda, Arwa, Bhyundar, Khiraun, Mandakini and Nandakini river valleys and their neighbouring glacial beds, mountain slopes and meadows ranging in altitude between 2000 and 4500 metres. Cypripedium elegans Reichb. f., a rare terrestrial orchid was collected for the first time in Western Himalayas.
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M. A. Rau
Botanical Survey of India, Northern Circle, Dehra Dun, India

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The paper gives an account of the recent collection of flowering plants and ferns from the Garhwal Himalayas, made by the author during the years 1957 to 1959 in which nearly 1500 gatherings were made which on study yielded 738 species. The area covered by this study lies between 30° and 31° N., and 79° and 80° E., and includes the Alaknanda, Arwa, Bhyundar, Khiraun, Mandakini and Nandakini river valleys and their neighbouring glacial beds, mountain slopes and meadows ranging in altitude between 2000 and 4500 metres. Cypripedium elegans Reichb. f., a rare terrestrial orchid was collected for the first time in Western Himalayas.