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Volume 65, Issue 1, July 2023

Articles

A contribution to the flora of Murlen National Park, Mizoram, a part of Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot in India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v65/2023/173057

Published 2023-07-27

  • Rabishankar Sengupta
    • ,
  • Sudhansu Sekhar Dash

Rabishankar Sengupta
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah - 711 103

Sudhansu Sekhar Dash
Botanical Survey of India, CGO complex, DF block, Sector-1, Kolkata - 700 064

Abstract

The paper enumerates 321 plant species belonging to 234 genera and 73 families collected from selected plots of Murlen national park in Mizoram along different altitudinal gradient. The ten most dominant families contributed 46.31% of total species collected; whereas the ten most dominant genera contributed more than 23.83% of total genera. Poaceae with 32 species under 29 genera was the most diverse family while Persicaria with 5 species was the largest genus.

Keywords

APG IV; Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot; phytosociology; vegetation.

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