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Ecology, Diversity and Taxonomy of the Pteridophytes of Pharenda Forest of Maharajganj District, Uttar Pradesh

2016; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.20431/2349-0365.0402006

2349-0365

Ravi Gautam, Shyamala Rajkumar, Shobhit Srivastava, Shashank Singh, Akhilesh Gupta,

Plant tissue culture and regeneration

Eastern Uttar Pradesh is rich in plant diversity as most of its parts are situated at the foothills of Great Himalaya.The forests of these places are supposed to have abundant diversity of all types of plants from lower forms to higher.Pharenda Forest is one of them.It is a township also known as Anand Nagar situated in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh.Geographically Pharenda is situated between the coordinates 27º 06' N and 83º 17' E. A survey consisting repetitive field trips was made to learn about the diversity and richness of Pteridophytes of this forest on the basis of effects of climate change.During this study about eleven species of Pteridophytes were collected and morphological observations were made.