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Volume 50, Issue 1-4, September 2008

Articles

Bark Algae of Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v50/2008/58244

Published 2008-12-07

  • R. K. Gupta

R. K. Gupta
Botanical Survey of India, Cryptogamic Unit, Howrah 711 103

Abstract

Studies on the epiphytic algae on the bark of different trees in Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah were conducted between 2006- 2007. Of these 33 species belong to Cyanophyceae. The members of 53 algal species revealed that members of Chroococcaceae, Oscillatoriaceae, Scytonemataceae, Nostocaceae, Rivulariaceae (Cyanophyceae), and Trentepohliaceae, Pleurococcaceae (Chlorophyceae) exhibit a luxuriant growth. But certain members of Chlorophyceae, Xanthophyceae and Bacillariophyceae, exhibit scare growth. The correct names of the woody species that support the growth of the algae are also listed.
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