Diversity of monocotyledonous plants of Manipur
2000
Sharma, H.M. | Radhapyari Devi, A. | Sharma, B.M. (Manipur University, Canchipur (India). Department of Life Sciences)
Manipur is one of the seven states in the remote, Northeastern corner of India has a very rich diversity of monocotyledonous plants. The entire Northeastern region of India have been recognized as a biodiversity hot-spot alongwith the Western Ghats in India (Myers, 1990), Deb (1961a) described 427 species of monocotyledonous plants belonging to 221 genera which are distributed over 33 families. Since, then 44 genera and 173 species have been added to the monocotyledonous flora of Manipur. Costaceae, Limnocharitaceae, Sparganiaceae and Stemonoaceae are the new families. The total number of monocotyledonous plants so far described from this state stands at 600 species belonging to 265 genera which are distributed over 35 families. In this paper an attempt has been made to renumerate the monocytyledonous plant flora of Manipur. All aspects of monocotyledonous plant flora of Manipur such as their statistics which are recorded since 1961 (after the publication of monocotyledonous plants of Manipur by Deb in 1961), species of economic importance, monotypic genera and endemic species have been described.
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