Nelumbo - The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India

D. B. Deb ¹, S. K. Mondal ¹, K. C. Mauck ¹

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1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

Abstract

The paper presents a morphological study of the seeds of 4 species of Hydnocarpus Gaertn. and the one species of Gynocardia R. Br. along with a key to the species on the basis of the characteristics of seeds Which are commercially exploited. Original citations, important synonymy, reference to Indian literature on the taxa and their districtwise occurrence in India, their distribution and fruiting time are given.

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