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Priyanka Agnihotri , Tariq Husain , S. D. Maliya

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Tariq Husain , Bhaskar Datt , L. B. Chaudhary , A. K. Asthana , Priyanka Agnihotri

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Bhimbetka World Heritage Site in Madhya Pradesh is quite important both from archaeological and biodiversity point of view. There are over 700 rock shelters with world's oldest Stone Age rock paintings, which are surrounded by a thick cover of primeval forests supporting a rich biodiversity. The forests of the area are typically dry mixed deciduous type with preponderance of Mitragyna parviflora, Terminalia alata, Careya arborea, Chloroxylon swietenia, Sterculia urens, Ficus mollis, Lannea coromandelica, Anogeissus latifolia, Schleichera oleosa and Diospyros melanoxylon trees. An analysis of floristic diversity revealed that there are 201 species of flowering plants belonging to 157 genera and 56 families. The legumes are most dominant in the area in respect to number of species (36 spp.), followed by families like Malvaceae (13 sp.) and Euphorbiaceae (12 sp.). An assessment of economic potential of the flora has also been made based on the first hand information generated from local inhabitants mainly Gond adivasis. The economically potential species are categorised into different groups based on their uses. Rare and endangered species have also been identified based on the status evaluation of their populations.

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Bhimbetka World Heritage Site, Floristic Diversity, Malvaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Madhya Pradesh

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Priyanka Agnihotri , Saumya Sharma , Veena Dixit , Harsh Singh , Tariq Husain

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Ethnobotanical investigations, carried out in 6 sacred groves of Pithoragarh district in Kumaon Hiamlaya, during 2009-2010, revealed therapeutic application of 32 plant species representing 31 genera and 20 families. 18 species of herbs are used by the local people to cure various ailments (56.25%) followed by shrubs with 8 species (25%), climbers 3 species (9.37%) and trees 3 species (9.37%). Family Asteraceae is dominant over the others with 6 species followed by Rosaceae with 3 species, Amaranthaceae, Malvaceae, Cleomaceae, Menispermaceae with 2 species while many other families contribute one species.

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Ethnobotany, Conserved Patches, Ethnomedicinal Plant, Sacred Groves

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Harsh Singh , Pushpi Singh , Tariq Husain

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Sacred groves are small or large patches of vegetation dedication to local ancestor or deities and often represented climax vegetation of the region. Haat Kali sacred grove. which is newly reported, is one such example in having important medicinal plants and many non - medicinal plants. The grove covers an area of 1.7 approximately and consists of 22 species belonging to 22 genera and 22 families of medicinal plants which are not found in the other parts of the district at the same altitude of 1750 ro. It is important to conserve this type of grove in having maximum genetic diversity of medicinal plants by strong steps.

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Sacred Grove, Haal Kali Sacred Grove, Medicinal Plant, Conservation

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Priyanka Agnihotri , Tariq Husain

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The present paper deals with taxa, which are additions to the flora of Nainital in Uttarakhand. Each species is provided with correct botanical name, important synonym (s), if any, diagnostic character, flowering and fruiting period and occurrence. Nomenclature for each species has been updated.

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Nainital, Flora, New Report, Uttarakhand

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Priyanka Agnihotri ¹, Danish Husain ¹, Tariq Husain ¹

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1 Plant Diversity, Systematics and Herbarium Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow 226 001, IN

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While working on the taxonomy of genus Aconitum from India, we collected specimens from East region of Sikkim Himalaya during September 2014, where we came across a small population of Aconitum taxon which was apparently different from other existing populations in the surrounding area. On critical examination, we observed that these specimens were strikingly different from the rest of the collections in Sikkim Himalaya.

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Priyanka Agnihotri ¹, Tariq Husain ¹, Pramod Arvind Shirke ², Om Prakash Sidhu ³, Harsh Singh ¹, Veena Dixit ¹, Anzar Ahmad Khuroo ⁴, Devindra Vijay Amla ⁵, Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal ⁶

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1 Plant Diversity, Systematics and Herbarium Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow-226 001, IN
2 Plant Physiology Department, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow-226 001, IN
3 Phytochemistry Department, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow-226 001, IN
4 Centre for Biodiversity and Taxonomy, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar-190 006, IN
5 CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow 226 001, IN
6 Division of Plant Microbial Interactions, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow 226 001, IN

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As broad-scale distributions of plants are shaped by climatic conditions, changes of climate necessarily result in shifts of distributional limits. These shifts are closely coupled with changes in plant ecophysiology, growth and productivity. Among environments subjected to the highest increase in temperature in the last decade and the greatest expected warming predicted for the future, high-mountain biomes belong to the most frequently considered. Evidence for distributional shifts has been mostly documented in European and American mountains, while the largest and highest mountainous areas are located in Asia. The present study aims to detect climate change-driven shifts in elevation and ecophysiological traits of endemic herb species of Himalaya with the help of herbarium specimens as potential tool. We observed significant rapid upward elevational shift of 55.2 m/decade compared to average global shifting of 6.1 m/decade and impulsive variations in secondary metabolite concentration. Significant negative relationship was found for stomatal density, δ¹³C with the lapse of years. Analysis of instrumental temperature data reveals an increase of 0.31°C in mean maximum and 0.79°C in mean minimum temperature during the last century.

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Climate Change, Distributional Shift, δ¹³C, Himalayan Plants, Metabolites, Stomatal Density.

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