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Volume 65, Issue 1, July 2023

Articles

Plagiochila junghuhniana (Marchantiophyta: Plagiochilaceae), new to Western Himalayan Bryoflora

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v65/2023/172545

Published 2023-07-27

  • Manisha Bhandari
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  • S. D. Tewari
    • ,
  • K. K. Rawat

Manisha Bhandari
Department of Botany, Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Post Graduate Girls College of Commerce, Haldwani, Nawabi Road, Nainital-263 139, Uttarakhand

S. D. Tewari
Department of Botany, Indira Priyadarshini Govt. Post Graduate Girls College of Commerce, Haldwani, Nawabi Road, Nainital-263 139, Uttarakhand

K. K. Rawat
Plant Diversity,Systematic and Herbarium Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226 001,Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

During the bryoexploratory survey of Cedrus deodara (Roxb. ex D.Don) G.Don forest site at Lohaghat, a South East Asiatic species of Plagiochila (Dumort.) Dumort., viz. P. junghuhniana Sande Lac. belonging to the section Vagae Lindenb. of the family Plagiochilaceae is observed. Plagiochila junghuhniana is described and illustrated here as a new addition to western Himalayas.

Keywords

Kumaun region, Lohaghat, New Record, Plagiochila, Western Himalayas

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