Abstract

The Current research was conducted to find the diversity of aquatic macrophytes in four selected block areas of Purba Medinipur district in the Indian State West Bengal. This overall study was conducted for a duration of 18 months, from February 2021 to August, 2022. A total of 67 aquatic macrophytes under 54 genera belonging to 32 families were identified from the study areas. Among them, about 18% represents the floating macrophytes, 40% emergent, 8% submerged and 34% marginal. Poaceae, Araceae, Asteraceae, Ulvaceae, Convolvulaceae, and Acanthaceae are the families that contain most of the identified species.

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