Flowering plants of Agumbe region, central Western Ghats, Karnataka, India

Agumbe, the Cherrapunji of southern India, is a bastion of rich endemic flora. In the present study of random sampling, a total of 570 species of flowering plants were collected belonging to 370 genera and 105 families, including a few endemic and Red Listed medicinal plants such as Garcinia gummi-gutta (L.) Roxb., Dipterocarpus indicus Bedd., Dysoxylum malabaricum Bedd. ex C.DC., Elaeocarpus tuberculatus Roxb., Hopea canarensis Hole, Calophyllum apetalum Willd., Adenia hondala (Gaertn.) W.J.de Wilde, and Myristica dactyloides Gaertn. Family Leguminosae contributes the maximum number of species (47 species) followed by Rubiaceae (32 species) and Asteraceae (27 species) and Genera Ficus (9 species), Diospyros (8 species) and Syzygium (7 species) are the dominant genera. Trees (185 species) are the dominant species followed by herbs (162 species), climbers (117 species), shrubs (62 species), grasses and sedges (19 species), epiphytes (15 species) and parasites (10 species).

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The oat-like grass Trisetopsis aspera (Munro ex Thwaites) Röser & A.Wölk (Poaceae): a new record for the flora of central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa ◽

10.11609/jott.6181.13.1.17601-17603 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 17601-17603

Author(s):

H.U. Abhijit ◽

Y.L. Krishnamurthy ◽

K. Gopalakrishna Bhat

Keyword(s):

Random Sampling ◽

Western Ghats ◽

New Record ◽

Sampling Method ◽

Field Surveys ◽

Extensive Field ◽

Central Western Ghats

For the documentation of grasses in the central Western Ghats of Karnataka, we have conducted the extensive field surveys by using random sampling method from 2017 to 2020. During this survey we have collected some grass specimens from the shola grassland, which forms the new distributional record of Trisetopsis aspera (Munro ex Thwaites) Roser & A. Wolk to the flora of central Western Ghats, Karnataka, India from the montane high- lands of Baba Budangiri hills of Chikkamagaluru District.

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Traditional uses of medicinal plants among the tribal people in Theni District (Western Ghats), Southern India

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine ◽

10.1016/s2221-1691(11)60115-9 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. S20-S25 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

K Jeyaprakash ◽

M Ayyanar ◽

KN Geetha ◽

T Sekar

Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plants ◽

Western Ghats ◽

Southern India ◽

Tribal People ◽

Traditional Uses

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Glyphochloa acuminata (Hack.) Clayton var. laevis (Poaceae): a new variety from central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa ◽

10.11609/jott.7368.13.11.19636-19639 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 19636-19639

Author(s):

H.U. Abhijit ◽

Y.L. Krishnamurthy

Keyword(s):

Western Ghats ◽

Southern India ◽

New Variety ◽

Central Western Ghats ◽

Lateritic Plateau

This communication describes a new variety of Glyphochloa acuminata var. laevis from the lateritic plateau of central Western Ghats of Karnataka, southern India.

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