Updated nomenclature and taxonomic status of the plants of Bangladesh included in Hook. f. the Flora of British India: Volume III

Abstract

One hundred seventy seven species belonging to 88 genera under 14 natural orders are determined to have been recorded in the third volume of J.D. Hooker's, the Flora of British India from the area now fall in Bangladesh. These taxa are enumerated with updated nomenclature and current taxonomic status following ICN and Cronquist's system of plant classification respectively resulting in 169 species under 93 genera and 14 families. Collection locality with collector's name of each species wherever available, as cited in protologue, is also included. IntroductionThe plants from the area of Bangladesh included in volumes I and II of J.D. Hooker's, the Flora of British India have already been determined and reported with their updated nomenclature and taxonomic status following ICN Rahman, 2011, 2012). The present report deals with the treatment of the taxa of the volume III of the Flora of British India (1880-1882). This volume includes three parts (VII-IX) published in 3 different dates consisting of a total of 22 natural orders, 354 genera and 2174 species. In this volume, J.D. Hooker was assisted by an eminent botanist, C.B. Clarke. Hooker alone described 4 natural orders while Clarke alone described 18 natural orders. Among these taxa, described in this volume, 177 species belonging to 88 genera and 14 natural orders are determined to be recorded from the area now in Bangladesh. The objective of the study was to update the nomenclature and taxonomic status of the plants of Bangladesh which have been included in the Flora of British India.

Towards inventory and assessment of plant resources of Bangladesh: challenges and prospects

“…Since then, family wise taxonomic itemization and publication of the Flora of Bangladesh had been continued until 2002 (Khan 1972-1987, Khan and Rahman 1989 edited by MS Khan and thereafter by others ( e.g. , Rahman and Khanam 2003, Khanam and Ara 2004-2008, Ara and Khan 2009, 2014, 2015 from Bangladesh National Herbarium. To date only 75 families consisting of 629 species were completely inventoried so far and published in 63 fascicles of the Flora of Bangladesh during the last five decades since 1970 at a very slow progress.…”

“…Hook.f. (1872-1897) in his the Flora of British India recorded 1416 taxa from the area of Bangladesh of which more than 24% species are known to be reported based on the types from Bangladesh (Rashid 2014). Rashid (2012, 2013)…”

Rediscovery of Geophila repens (L.) I.M. Johnst. (Rubiaceae) in Bangladesh

“…Taxonomic identification was confirmed based on its key characters described in the recent taxonomic literatures (e.g., Tao et al, 2011) and the type images available in the web pages of international herbaria (e.g., Kew Herbarium Catalogue, Geneva Herbarium Catalogue). Nomenclatural information was collected from IPNI (2016), Rashid & Rahman (2016), The Plant List (2017) and TROPICOS (2017). The voucher specimens have been deposited in Bangladesh National Herbarium (DACB) and Jahangirnagar University Herbarium (JUH).…”