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Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Communication Legumes (Angiosperms: Fabaceae) of Bagalkot District, Karnataka, India Jagdish Dalavi, Ramesh Pujar, Sharad Kambale, Varsha Jadhav-Rathod & Shrirang Yadav 26 April 2021 | Vol. 13 | No. 5 | Pages: 18283–18296 DOI: 10.11609/jot.6394.13.5.18283-18296 For Focus, Scope, Aims, and Policies, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/aims_scope For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/policies_various For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. 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Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 April 2021 | 13(5): 18283–18296 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) OPEN ACCESS htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.6394.13.5.18283-18296 #6394 | Received 11 July 2020 | Final received 19 January 2021 | Finally accepted 13 April 2021 COMMUNICATION Legumes (Angiosperms: Fabaceae) of Bagalkot District, Karnataka, India Jagdish Dalavi 1 , Ramesh Pujar 2 , Sharad Kambale 3 , Varsha Jadhav-Rathod 4 & Shrirang Yadav 5 1,4,5 Department of Botany, Shivaji University Kolhapur, Maharashtra 416004, India. 2 Department of Botany, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka 580003, India. 3 Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj’s Arts, Commerce & Science College, Tryambakeshwar, Maharashtra 422212, India. 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected], 3 [email protected], 4 [email protected] (corresponding author), 5 [email protected] Kannada: "# $%ೕ ' ಂ ಡ* ಅಥ- ./01ೕ%ೕ ಆಂ34ೕಸ6 ಮ8 9ಗಳ'* <ವ ಅ>?ಡ@ ಸಸ# ABಂಬಗಳ'* ಒಂE. 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During foristc analysis of the District the authors recorded ನíR%ದ 157 `>ಯ ./ಮ8 ಗಳ ಆ -ಸ Vì ನ , 3ೕವ HಧಗT, îïO, ವXೕ9ಕರಣ ಮ hi ಅñಗಳ óoòಖ#ôಯcd ಇ '* 157 species of legumes, which is communicated here in relaton to habitat, life forms, distributon, classifcaton and their importance. Wಖ'%WÖ ö. Keywords: Deccan, Leguminosae, southern India, sub-family. Kannada: "# $%ೕ ' ಂ ಡ* ಅಥ- ./01ೕ%ೕ ಆಂ34ೕಸ6ಮ89ಗಳ'*<ವ ಅ>?ಡ@ ಸಸ# A B ಂ ಬ ಗ ಳ '* ಒಂE. "# $%ೕ ABಂಬದ ಸದಸ# < HHಧ Jೕ>ಯ ಹ- M ನ OP Q ಂRS TU ವ Vಮಥ# 9RಂWX, H Z[ ದ# ಂತ ಹರ^Sಂ^_. `ಗ>ಕ-X, "# b%ಯcd 770 ತgಗT ಮ hi 19,500 /ಂmಗT ಪo > p q r ತi _ . $ಗಲSೕt ಉ ತi ರ ಕv9ಟಕದ ಅ>?ಡ@ 3 .* ಗ ಳ '* ಒಂWXx ಮ hi ಇE zರತದ { ಕP | }pc8 ಲ~ ಪo ಶ ದ ಅ ^ ಯ '* ಬ < ತi x . ಅಧ# ಯನ ಪo ಶ ($ಗಲSೕt) ಮÉ ÑರT ಪo ಶ - X E Ö ವಷ9á>9 àಷP ಮ hi ಉಷâ -äವರಣ Q ಂ R < ತi x . 3 .* ಯ ಸಸ# ಗಳ ಅಧ# ಯನ åç H é* ೕ ಷ è ಯ ಸ ಮ ಯ ದ '* êಖಕ< ಇ '* ನíR%ದ 157 `>ಯ ./ಮ8 ಗಳ ಆ- ಸVì ನ , 3ೕವ HಧಗT, îïO, ವXೕ9ಕರಣ ಮ hi ಅñಗಳ óo òಖ# ôಯcd ಇ '* W ಖ ' % WÖ ö . Kannada: "# $%ೕ ' ಂ ಡ* ಅಥ- ./01ೕ%ೕ ಆಂ34ೕಸ6 ಮ8 9ಗಳ'* <ವ ಅ >?ಡ@ ಸಸ# A B ಂ ಬ ಗ ಳ '* ಒಂE. "# $%ೕ ABಂಬದ ಸದಸ# < HHಧ Jೕ>ಯ ಹ - M ನ OP Editor:QಂRSTU Anonymity ವ Vಮಥ# requested. 9RಂWX , H Z[ ದ# ಂ ತ ಹರ^Sಂ^_. `ಗ>ಕ-X, "# b%ಯ cd 770 ತgಗT ಮ hi 19,500 /ಂmಗT ಪoDate > p q of r publicaton: ತi _ . $ಗಲSೕt 26 ಉApril ತi ರ ಕv9ಟಕದ2021 (online ಅ >?ಡ@ & print) 3 .* ಗ ಳ '* ಒಂWXx ಮ hi ಇE zರತದ { ಕP | }pc8 ಲ~ ಪo ಶ ದ ಅ ^ ಯ '* ಬ < ತi x . ಅಧ# ಯನ ಪo ಶ ($ಗಲSೕt) ಮÉ ÑರT ಪo ಶ - X E Ö ವಷ9á>9 àಷP ಮ hi ಉಷâ -äವರಣ Q ಂ R < ತi x . 3 .* ಯ ಸಸ# ಗಳ ಅಧ# ಯನ åç H é* ೕ ಷ è ಯ ಸ ಮ ಯ ದ '* êಖಕ< ಇ '* ನíR%ದ 157 `>ಯ . /ಮ8 ಗಳ ಆ - ಸ Vì ನ , 3ೕವ HಧಗT, îïO, ವXೕ9ಕರಣ Citaton: Dalavi, J., R. Pujar, S. Kambale, V. Jadhav-Rathod & S. Yadav (2021). Legumes (Angiosperms: Fabaceae) of Bagalkot District, Karnataka, India. Journal of ಮ hi ಅñಗಳ óo ò ಖ # ô ಯ c d ಇ '* W ಖ ' % WÖ ö . Threatened Taxa 13(5): 18283–18296. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.6394.13.5.18283-18296 Copyright: © Dalavi et al. 2021. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Funding: Self-funded. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Author details: JVD is currently working as doctoral student at Shivaji University, Kolhapur on foristc studies of Bagalkot district and arid region of Northern Karnataka. He is also engaged in systematc studies on some important families of angiosperms like Acanthaceae, Fabaceae, Malvaceae and Portulacaceae. RP is a post graduate student from Karnatak University, Dharwad, currently engaged in foristc exploraton of northern Karnataka. He is engaged with studies in seasonal herbaceous fora from Central and Northern Karnataka. SSK is currently working as Assistant professor at MVP’s Arts, Commerce and Science college, Tryambakeshwar. He has vast experience in feld work and exploraton of fowering plants. He has more than 20 new species to his credit and currently engaged with studies in Apocynaceae and also revised genus Ceropegia for India. VDJ is currently working as Professor at Shivaji University Kolhapur. She has immense experience in Ethnobotany and Phytochemical analysis of wild plants of India. She explored many tribal communites from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra for ethnobotanical research. She is engaged with nutritonal analysis of wild edible plants of Western Ghats. SRY, working as INSA-senior scientst at Shivaji University, Kolhapur has 35 years’ experience in angiosperm taxonomy. He has 70 new species to his credit. He is author of some popular books on foristcs and grasses. Currently he is working on taxonomy of Aponogeton and Pancratum. Author contributon: JVD—Field exploraton, collecton, herbarium preparaton, identfcaton, herbarium consultaton and photography. RP—Field exploraton, collecton, laboratory studies, literature survey and local communicaton. SSK—Filed exploraton, collecton, data analysis and nomenclatural updates. VDJ— Laboratory analysis, literature survey, ethnobotanical data. SRY—Field exploraton, collecton, identfcaton, laboratory analysis and photography. Acknowledgements: All authors are thankful to the head of department of Botany, Shivaji University Kolhapur for laboratory facilites. Dr. Sharad Kambale is thankful to Principal, MVP’s Arts, Science and Commerce College Tryambakeshwar. Prof. (Dr.) S.R. Yadav is thankful to the Indian Natonal Science Academy. All authors are thankful to Dr. S. Kambhar (B.K., Arts, Commerce and Science College, Chikodi) and Dr. Vijayalaxmi Dandin (JSS College, Vidyagiri, Dharwad) for Kannada communicaton. 18283 J TT Legumes of Bagalkot District Dalavi et al. INTRODUCTION under a rain shadow area. Due to low rainfall and hot & dry climatc conditons, the region is dominated by Legumes are the third largest group of Angiosperms dry deciduous forests, scrub jungles, and vast seasonal in terms of species number afer Orchidaceae and grasslands. The district lies at 16.3160N, 76.0000E and Asteraceae and the second economically most 533m alttude and having a total area of 6,552km2 important family afer Poaceae (FAO 2016). Globally (Dalavi et al. 2019). The district is divided into six Fabaceae consists of 770 genera and over 19,500 species sub-district regions, namely: Badami, Bagalkot, Bilgi, (LPWG 2017) in India, Fabaceae are represented by 147 Hungund, Jamkhandi and Mudhol (Fig. 1). Rabakavi- genera, 805 species, 33 sub-species, 155 varietes and Banahat Guledgudda and Ilkal are newly divided taluk 14 forms (Sanjappa 1991, 1995; Dave 2004; Chaudhary places. Major habitats of the districts are large rocky & Khan 2005; Ansari 2008; Jabbar et al. 2010; Chavan et hills, gravelly slopes, sandy plains, perennial & seasonal al. 2013; Gaikwad et al. 2014). Legumes are important lakes, marshy & saline areas, ditches, rivers, and black food crops providing highly nutritous sources of soil plains.