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Volume 64, Issue 2, December 2022

Articles

Algal diversity in riparian lentic habitats of Brahmaputra valley

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v64/2022/170265

Published 2022-12-31

  • Partha Pratim Baruah
    • ,
  • Shaswatee Bhattacharjee
    • ,
  • Soumin Nath
    • ,
  • Bishmita Boruah
    • ,
  • Himamani Kalita

Partha Pratim Baruah
Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam

Shaswatee Bhattacharjee
Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam

Soumin Nath
Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam

Bishmita Boruah
Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam

Himamani Kalita
Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam

Abstract

The present investigation was performed to enumerate the freshwater algal diversity in riverine lentic waterbodies of Brahmaputra valley. A total of 194 algal taxa were documented belonging to Charophyta (61), Chlorophyta (49), Euglenozoa (43), Bacillariophyta (22), Cyanobacteria (12), Ochrophyta (4) and Miozoa (3) respectively. Among these 109 taxa were found to be newly reported from Assam. Members of desmidiaceae were dominant with 49 species under 11 genera and Cosmarium was the dominant among them with 23 species.

Keywords

Algae, freshwater, Brahmaputra valley, Charophyta, Cosmarium

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