Authors : K. V. Dubey, S. V. Kulkarni, P. Charde and A. A. Juwarkar
Page Nos : 151-158
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Abstract:
World’s largest biodiversity is in Tropical forests which play an important role in the maintaining the global terrestrial carbon budget. Gorewada forest is one of the tropical forests located in Nagpur district, (M.S.), India. It is a rich source of biodiversity which represents a valuable global resource such as food, fodder, fruits, fuel, gums and medicines that are beneficial to mankind. Among various resources of forests, legumes and non-legumes represents a very large and diverse group of plant kingdom, ranging from herbs, shrubs, trees, climbers and grasses. In the present study, variety of legume and non-legume plants from seven different compartments of Gorewada forest viz. 790-796 of Gorewada forest of Nagpur district were surveyed and collected for taxonomic identification of plants and their distribution pattern i.e. density to find out the dominant flora. Most of the plants in the different compartments are common which includes the leguminous plants which were in large number as compared to non-legumes. Leguminous plants found are Abrus precatorius, Acacia sp., Albizia lebbeck, Butea monosperma, Bahunia sp., Caesalpinia pulcherima, cassia fistula, Cassia tora, Leucaena leucocephala, Mimosa hamata, Mucuna pruriens, Pithecellobium dulce, Pongamia pinnata, Tamarindus indica, Tephrosia purpurea, Tephrosia hamiltonii etc. and were as non-legumes are Blumea sp., Tectona grandis, Santalabum album, Zizipus sp., Celosia argentea, Cleistanthus collinus, Mytragyna perbifolia, Partheneium sp., Semicarpus anacardium, Sida sp., vernonia cinerea etc. This study will be useful in determining the species diversity of plant which will be useful in characterizing the structure of the community available in and around Gorewada International Zoo.
Keywords: Tropical forest, plant biodiversity
