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Volume 45, Issue 1-4, 2003

Articles

Botanical Observations on the Purulia Pumped Storage Hydropower Project Area, Bagmundi Hills, Purulia District, West Bengal

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v45/2003/74190

Published 2024-05-22

  • T. K. Paul

T. K. Paul
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah - 711 103

Abstract

The paper presents a vegetation and floristic account of the proposed Purulia pumped storage hydropower project at Bagmundi hills, Purulia district, West Bengal. The primary impact of the project would be submerging of c. 4 sq. km. area of forest for construction of two rock filled dams. A total number of 246 species under 192 genera belonging to 78 families have been identified from the area, of which 54 species are ethnobotanically significant.
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