ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF GUJARAT FROM MEHSANA AND KUTCH DISTRICTS (N. GUJARAT)

摘要

Cooke (1901) in preface of his "Flora of Bombay Presidency" remarked that "it can hardly be expected that the present FLORA will be an absolutely exhaustive one....". At that time Gujarat was the least explored part of the presidency, especially NorthGujarat. The first comprehensive account available is "Flora of Kutch" by Blatter (1908-09) and of Saxton & Sedgwick (1918), who published a list of 614 flowering plants in their work "Plants of Northern Gujarat". This work was subsequently supplementedby Saxton in 1922. Afterwards, except the work of Thakar (1926), there was a big gap of 40 years in the history of floristic account of Gujarat. Subsequently, Santapau (1962) published pt. I of "Flora of Saurashtra", which was later on completed by Bole& Pathak (1988). Shah (1963), Shah & Yogi (1974) & Bhatt & al. (1972) further enriched our knowledge on the flora & floristics of N. Gujarat. Shah (1978) and Raghavan & al. (1981), provided a comprehensive account on flora of whole Gujarat state and checklist respectively. Pilo & al. (1996) compile all the previous publications and provided a complete biodiversity account of Gujarat state. During recent years, the scientists of Botanical Survey of India, Jodhpur have added new dimentions to our knowledge regarding the flora & floristics of the state (Pandey & Padhye, 1997; Pandey, 2001, 2003; Parmar & Singh, 2003, Parmar, 2003). A perusal of literature revealed that eight taxa dealt herewith have not been recorded from any part of Gujarat State and, therefore, worth to publish for further investigations.