Abstract
Survey on the floral diversity is an important activity to assess the existing flora. This study was carried out from December 2017 to December 2018 to document the flora existing in the Udumalpet Taluk, Tiruppur District, Tamil Nadu, India. As a result, a total of 370 taxa belonging to 263 genera of 82 angiosperm families have been documented. 52% of species of them are herbaceous. Euphorbiaceae and Fabaceae with 23 taxa each, Asteraceae with 21 species, Acanthaceae with 20 species and Amaranthaceae with 18 species are observed as the dominant families. In this article, family, botanical name, habit, vernacular name and various applications of the recorded plants are enumerated systematically. Threats to these plants and possible conservation strategies are also discussed briefly.
 Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 27(1): 137-152, 2020 (June)
Highlights
Flora of a region is considered as an essential part of the environment that determines the wealth of ecosystem and human health (Sandifer et al, 2015)
Documentation on the flora of rural areas are comparatively less than the checklists of flora on the particular hills, green patches, reserve forests, uphill or otherwise focused on particular group of plants or genus of the family etc. (Singh, 1982; Sinha, 2005; Sukumaran et al, 2008; Mantosh 2013; Vijay and Ashok, 2013; Ganorkar and Kshirsagar, 2013; Kumar and Ritesh, 2014; Anuradha and Murugandam, 2016; Parthipan et al, 2016; Savita and Sanjaykumar, 2017)
Udumalpet Taluk was previously included in the Coimbatore district, after the bifurcation on 2008, it came under newly formed Tiruppur district
Summary
Flora of a region is considered as an essential part of the environment that determines the wealth of ecosystem and human health (Sandifer et al, 2015). Documentation on the flora of rural areas are comparatively less than the checklists of flora on the particular hills, green patches, reserve forests, uphill or otherwise focused on particular group of plants or genus of the family etc. Udumalpet Taluk was previously included in the Coimbatore district, after the bifurcation on 2008, it came under newly formed Tiruppur district. Floristic survey of this area was previously done by different researchers mainly on Anamalai Reserve Forests and it’s nearby reserve forests, green patches and hillocks coming under this Taluk. Since the inhabitants of these areas still rely on plants for medicinal, edible and other commercial/miscellaneous uses, the present work focused to explore the flora existing in the rural areas of Udumalpet Taluk by conducting frequent field surveys and assess its conservation status
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