Nelumbo - The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India

S. R. Yadav ¹, S. P. Gaikwad ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi 11 0 007, IN
2 Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416 004, IN

Abstract

Unigeneric family Aponogetonaceae, represented by about 44 species of Aponogeton L. f. is distributed in tropics and subtropics of the Old World. The genus Aponogeton is represented by 7 species in India. Detailed taxonomic account including synonymy, morphology, phenology, distribution, ecology, taxonomic note if any, chromosome number and key to the Indian species of Aponogeton is presented in this paper.

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M. Y. Kamble ¹, S. R. Yadav ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur 416004, IN

Abstract

Family Asclepiadaceae is represented by 250 genera and ca 3000 species mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is represented by 43 genera and ca 243 species in India, of which, 31 genera, 82 species, 2 subspecies and 7 varieties are known from the State of Maharashtra. The family is well known for endemism, most elaborate complicated flower of all the dicots and contrivances for pollination. Most of the members of the family are restricted in distribution and many of them fall under some IUCN categories of rare plants. Many of the species are not available for taxonomic studies due to rarity of plant materials. Similarly fleshy nature of flowers makes it difficult to study floral structure in dried herbarium specimens. During last decade, deliberate attempts were made to collect asclepiads of Maharashtra and study their characters in fresh and prickled liquid preserved materials. During 10 years intensive survey of asclepiads of Maharashtra, about 63 species of the total 82 species reported for the State have been collected, documented, photographed, studied and reported in the present paper. The genus Ceropegia alone accounts for 24 species and 2 varieties for the state. Photographs of asclepiad flowers are found to be of paramount value in easy identifications than their descriptions. The paper gives an account of Asclepiads of Maharashtra, their distribution and present field status.

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S. P. Gaikwad ¹, M. M. Sardesai ¹, S. R. Yadav ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, IN

Abstract

Data on aquatic flowering plants of South-Western Maharashtra is given and 303 species, 2 subspecies and 6 varieties belonging to 145 genera and 73 Families of aquatic and semiaquatic flowering plants are enumerated in the present paper.

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V. B. Shimpale ¹, C. B. Salunkhe ², N. K. Dravid ³, S. R. Yadav ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, IN
2 Department of Botany, Krishna Mahavidyalaya, Rethare, IN
3 Balaji Hospital and Research Center, Guruwar Peth, Satara, IN

Abstract

Man in all ages has used plants to cure diseases and relieving physical suffering. Even in this age of modem medicines, Indian system of folk medicine continues to provide medicinal relief for about 75% of our population. The studies on medicinal uses of flowering plants of south-western Maharashtra revealed that some of the medicinal uses of flowering plants have not been recorded in scientific community. In the present paper, so far unknown uses of some flowering plants of south-western Maharashtra are recorded. This will help scientific community to undertake further investigations on plants of the region.

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Preeti D. Mahekar ¹, S. R. Yadav ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, IN

Abstract

Sixty nine samples folk medicines produced from local market have been characterized botanically and pharmacognostically. Botanical characterization has been done by actual comparison of authentic samples with that of market samples. The present paper deals with enumeration of these species used in folk medicine and gives correct botanical identity of plant materials, their common names, local names, parts used and botanical diagnostic characters.

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