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Vascular plants, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India

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Title Vascular plants, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India
 
Creator Chawla, Amit
Parkash, Om
Sharma, Varun
Rajkumar, S
Lal, Brij
Chand, Gopi
Singh, R D
Thukral, A K
 
Subject Ecology
 
Description In the present study, we provide a checklist of the vascular plants of Kinnaur district situated in the Himachal
Pradesh state of India in the western Himalaya. This checklist includes 893 taxa (viz., species, subspecies and varieties)
belonging to 881 species of angiosperms and gymnosperms distributed among 102 families and 433 genera, and 30 species
of pteridophytes. Information about the growth habit, threat and endemicity status is also provided. Our results show
that family Compositae is by far the most species rich family with 122 species, followed by Poaceae (69), Rosaceae (58),
Leguminosae (49) and Lamiaceae (38). Among the genera, Artemisia is the most diverse genus with 19 species, followed
by Potentilla (14), Saussurea (13), Polygonum (11), Astragalus (10), Lonicera (10) and Nepeta (10). Similar to other regions
in the western Himalayan range, family-to-genera ratio was 1:4.25 and the genera-to-species ratio was 1:2.04. Out of 893
taxa, our checklist includes 606 herb species, 63 trees, 108 shrubs, 28 climbers, 67 graminoids and 21 sedges and rushes.
Of all the species recorded, 108 (12.2%) are endemic to western Himalaya and 27 (3%) are placed under IUCN threatened
categories. The present checklist on the flora of Kinnaur provides an important baseline data for further quantitative studies
on the characteristics of plant communities in this region and will help in the identification of priority conservation areas.
 
Date 2012
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ihbt.csircentral.net/1236/1/40_Vascular.pdf
Chawla, Amit and Parkash, Om and Sharma, Varun and Rajkumar, S and Lal, Brij and Chand, Gopi and Singh, R D and Thukral, A K (2012) Vascular plants, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India. Check list, 8 (3). pp. 321-348.
 
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