Abstract
The paper deals with 13 taxa belonging to Desmid genus Staurastrum Meyen from some selected areas of Bangladesh. Of these, eight taxa are new records for Bangladesh and two taxa are new to science. Key words: Desmids, Staurastrum, Bangladesh DOI: 10.3329/bjpt.v13i1.592 Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 13(1): 41-47, 2006 (June)
Highlights
This is in continuation of the previous work on desmids collected from some selected areas of Bangladesh and published under the same title in the same journal (Islam and Akter 2004)
The latter paper dealt with the genus Staurastrum Meyen, in which 30 taxa belonging to it have been described
In the present instalment further addition of 13 taxa belonging to the same genus, not included in the previous paper, have been made
Summary
This is in continuation of the previous work on desmids collected from some selected areas of Bangladesh and published under the same title in the same journal (Islam and Akter 2004). The latter paper dealt with the genus Staurastrum Meyen, in which 30 taxa belonging to it have been described. In the present instalment further addition of 13 taxa belonging to the same genus, not included in the previous paper, have been made. Of these taxa included here, eight taxa are new records for Bangladesh and two taxa are new to science. The new taxa and new records are marked by the asterisk (*) in the text
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