A contribution to the lichen flora of Assam, India

Abstract

The paper presents an updated list of 250 species of lichens known so far from the state of Assam. 31 species marked by an asterisk (*) are new records for the state.

Floristic study of Karwi District with special emphasis to dominant family

“…The main focused on ten families belonging to different taxa of Angiosperms have been given in this work. The ten dominant families in order of their species content were made for the flora of Banda district (Sinha and Verma, 1996) [15] the result of which are given viz., Leguminosae (I), Gramineae (II), Asteraceae (III), Euphorbiaceae (IV), Acanthaceae (V), Scrophulariaceae (VI), Malvaceae (VII), Labiatae (VIII), Convolvulaceae (IX) and Verbenaceae (X) respectively.…”

“…Field visits were undertaken to different localities of Karwi district throughout the year (various seasons) and collected the digital photographs in natural habitat and plant specimens for observation, identification and data preparation in the laboratory during the study period. The plant species were identified with help of different floras viz., Flora of Banda district (Sinha & Verma, 1996); Contribution to the flora of Banda district (U.P.) Sinha (1990) [16] , Sinha and Shukla, (2004) [12] , Sinha and Verma, (1986a & 1992) [13][14] ; Flora of Flora of Uttar Pradesh (Singh et al 2016) [11] .…”

“…The plant species were identified with help of different floras viz., Flora of Banda district (Sinha & Verma, 1996); Contribution to the flora of Banda district (U.P.) Sinha (1990) [16] , Sinha and Shukla, (2004) [12] , Sinha and Verma, (1986a & 1992) [13][14] ; Flora of Flora of Uttar Pradesh (Singh et al 2016) [11] . The digital electronic herbarium was constructed and the whole data of plant specimens were fed in the DELTA software with more than 192 morphological characters.…”

“…Out of the total 4,20,000 flowering plants reported from the world (Govaerts, 2001) [8] . The "Flora of Banda" studied earlier by Sinha and Verma (1996) [15] . Thenceforward, publication of Flora of Banda several research works have been done Singh et al (2016) [11] , Chaudhary, et al (2016) [4] , Bhatt and Bhargava (2006) [2] .…”

The study of biogeographic patterns of the genus Parmotrema in Wayanad District, Kerala with a new record in India

“…Lichens contribute to 8% of global biodiversity and approximately 19,387 species that comprise 995 genera, 115 families, 39 orders, and eight classes (Lücking et al 2016). The Indian subcontinent has approximately 3,028 lichens (Awasthi 2000;Sinha 2021) and Kerala has 27% of this diversity (Purushothaman et al 2021;Anilkumar et al 2022;Sequeira et al 2022). All the members of the genus Parmotrema A.Massal.…”