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Volume 64, Issue 2, December 2022

Articles

Algal diversity of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India, including new distributional records

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v64/2022/172503

Published 2022-12-31

  • Pritha Basu
    • ,
  • Animesh Maji
    • ,
  • Sukumar Bhakta
    • ,
  • K. Karthigeyan

Pritha Basu
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah - 711103 West Bengal

Animesh Maji
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah - 711103 West Bengal

Sukumar Bhakta
Botanical Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Pune- 411001, Maharashtra

K. Karthigeyan
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah - 711103, West Bengal

Abstract

The recent studies on the algal diversity of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve resulted in the documentation of a total of 26 taxa of algae belonging to different algal group viz. Cyanophyta, Chlorophyta, Euglenophyta, Rhodophyta and Bacillariophyta. Out of the 26 taxa enumerated, 8 taxa are newly reported from Sundarban Biosphere Reserve and two are new additions for the algal flora of west Bengal.

Keywords

Algae, New records, West Bengal

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