Flowering Plants of Chikodi Hills Belagavi, Karnataka, India

Sidanand Kambhar, Rahul Patil, Vasudev Patil, Shivanand Jadagoudar, Vijaylaxmi Danannavar, Sujata Bandagar, Nazmeen Makandar Bawa, Jagdish Dalavi, Mahendra Bhise, K. Kotresha

• Publisher: GRIN Verlag
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN:
  9783346562920
• Edition: 1

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Guidebooks - Nature, , language: English, abstract: A Chikodi hill is located in North Western part of Belagavi District of Karnataka state, India, maintaining great plant diversity. Little attention to plant diversity studies has been made to it in the past years. Here, we present a checklist of the flowering plants of this region obtained through intensive field investigations and matching of herbarium specimens. In total, 584 species, including 24 endemic species are documented, belonging to 95 families and 383 genera. The native ranges, habit, habitat, flowering and fruiting and voucher specimens of taxon have been recorded in this checklist. It is the first exhaustive inventory of the flowering plants in Chikodi hills which is a significant regional centre for plant diversity.