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FLORISTIC DIVERSITY STUDY OF

TALUKA, DISTRICT ARAVALLI, ,

ARATI BHAGAT, KHYATI PATEL AND M.S.JANGID

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY SINCE 2010 SIR P. T. SCIENCE COLLGE, - 383 315 (GUJARAT) INDIA.

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ABSTRACT:

IMPACT FACTOR During research work, total 591 species of angiosperm plants 2019-20: 2.40; 2021:1.09 belonging to 390 genera under 107 families were reported from

Dhansura taluka. Relating to the habit of the plants out of the 591

IPI Value species.111 were tree species, 82 belonged to shrubs and 309 are 1.92 herbs. Received on: 18th June 2021 KEYWORDS: Floristic diversity, Dhansura, Taluka, Tree, Shrub, Revised on: Herb. 25th July 2021 Accepted on: INTRODUCTION: 29th July 2021 Floristic diversity and study has acquired increasing importance Published on: 1st August 2021 developing countries to improve their plant wealth. Floristic diversity is very much important because secure for their rare, endangered and Volume No. threatened plant species. In this research is prepared with a view in Online & Print 138 (2021) corporate data on synoptic analysis and comparison of flora. A floristic study documents of all the plant species found within a Page No. specific geographical area. Some enthusiastic and large-scale floristic 13 to 20 Life Sciences Leaflets projects involve development of keys, descriptions, and interpretation is an international open of the plants, although some may produce a simple list of plant access print & e species. journal, peer reviewed, worldwide abstract Floristic diversity studies help us to assess the plant wealth and its listed, published every capability of any given area. Floristic studies also help us to find out month with ISSN, RNI the basic aspects of biology such as speciation, isolation, endemism Free- membership, downloads and access. and evolution. Flora of any area is not fixed up. It is change from time to time. Various ecological factors, mostly biotic and abiotic, changes https://lifesciencesleaflets.petsd.org/ PEER-REVIEWED Page | 13

Life Sciences Leaflets FREE DOWNLOAD ISSN 2277-4297(Print) 0976–1098(Online) the floristic components. The total number of species may be changed; dominant species may be replaced with other species; the floristic composition like family, genus, species ratio may be changed. The consist of 6 talukas namely Bayad, Bhiloda, Dhansura, Malpur, and Modasa. Dhansura is a taluka in Aravalli District of Gujarat State, Dhansura Taluka Head Quarters is Dhansura town. It is located 44 KM towards South from District Himmatnagar. 66 KM from State capital towards west. Dhansura taluka is bounded by Bayad taluka towards South, Talod taluka towards West ,Modasa Taluka towards North,Malpur Taluka towards East. Modasa city, city, Prantij city, Himatnagar city are the nearby cities to Dhansura. A quality work on floristic aspects has been accomplish in the different regions,amid few of them are Thakar (1910), Saxton and Sedgwick (1918),Saxton (1922),Thakar (1926), Sutaria (1941), Santapau (1954), Santapau (1962), Shah (1969), Yogi (1970), Patel (1971), Bhatt and Inamdar (1971), (1974), Ford (1978), Shah (1978),Shah (1981), Gopal (1983),Janaki and Prasad (1984), Patel (1984), Reddy (1987), Jain (1987), Bole (1988), Reddy (1989), Jain (l989), Jain (1991), Shetty and Singh (1991), Jain (1992), Saklani and Jain (1994), Sinha (1996),Shastri (1996), Jain (1996),Punjani (1997), Jackson and B. D. (2000), Singh (2000), Patel (2001), Patel (2002), Singh (2002), Brandis (2003),Sing (2003), Gohil (2005), Jangid (2005), Tyagi (2007), Tyagi & Khan (2008), Srivastav (2012), Bendre and Kumar (2014), Parmar (2015). Patel (2016), Qureshimatva (2016), Ruchi (2016) and Shah (2017).In future, the result of the present work will be distribute in the local language (Gujarati), which will be a good service of our community.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: The angiospermic plants were collected from the various villages and area including hills and hillocks of the Dhansura taluka forest ranges. A good number of trips were arranged in accordance with the different seasons throughout the whole year. The fully grown plants were collected during the monsoon and in the later part of the rainy season. The collected plants were brought to the laboratory, identified and classified to their respective species level. (Cook,01-03, Shah, 1978 and Sutaria, 1941). The information of plants has been collected by means of arranging meeting, dialogues and discussion with rural, tribal and knowledgeable people from various villages of Dhansura taluka. Benthem and Hooker system of classification was adopted for the present study. The scientific names of the plants have been given as per the latest references.

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS: During research work, total 591 species of angiosperm plants belonging to 390 genera under 107 families were reported from Dhansura taluka. Relating to the habit of the plants, out of the 591 species, 111 were tree species, 82 belonged to shrubs and 309 herbs. From the table 1 it can be conclude that Fabaceae is the dominant and leading family in Dhansura taluka. From the table 2 it can be conclude that herbs are the highest in number as compare to the other habitats in Dhansura taluka. Table 3 it can conclude that total number of dicot plants are more than the monocot plants.

 During research work, 42 plants are monogeneric and monospecific. Total 591 plants founded during research, out of that 465 wild plants and 126 cultivated plants.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:  The authors are highly thankful to all the tribal peoples for their cooperation and help during field work by providing the information and support during the field trips in the research area.

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TABLE: 1. TEN LEADING FAMILIES AND NUMBER OF SPECIES ARE AS FOLLOW: SR. FAMILIES NO. OF PLANT NO. SPECIES 001 Fabaceae 40 002 Poaceae 38 003 Asteraceae 34 004 Euphorbiaceae 27 005 Cyperaceae 21 006 Cucurbitaceae 19 007 Acanthaceae 18 008 Ceasalpiniaceae, Convolvulaceae 17 009 Mimosaceae 16 010 Malvaceae 15

TABLE: 2. COMPARISON OF THE HABITAT TYPES ARE AS FOLLOWS SR.NO FORMS OF NO. OF TOTAL% PLANTS PLANTS 1 Herbs 309 52% 2 Trees 111 18% 3 Shrubs 82 14% 4 Climbers 74 13% 5 Undershrubs 09 2% 6 Parasites 06 1% TOTAL 591 100%

TABLE: 3. ACCORDING TO FOLLOWING TABLE, COMPARISON TO THE DICOT AND MONOCOT GENERA, SPECIES AND FAMILIES GENERA SPECIES FAMILY DICOT 313 477 85 MONOCOT 77 114 22 TOTAL 390 591 107

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6 Form of Plants 9

74 Herbs Trees 82 Shrubs 309 Climbers Undershrubs 111 Parasites

Fig.1: Habit wise plant species in study area

600

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400 Genera 300 Species Family 200

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0 Dicot Monocot Total

Fig. 2: Floristic Studies with class

126 42 42 Monogenaric monospecific Wild Plants 465 Cultivated Plants

Fig. 3: 42 plants are monogeneric and monospecific. 465 wild plants and 126 cultivated plants

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