Abstract
During recent botanical explorations, we recorded three interesting plant species from the alpine regions (>3500m) of the Uttarakhand State in the western Himalaya. After a detailed scrutiny of the literature and herbarium specimens, we ascertain their identity and report them as additions to the flora of Uttarakhand. In this paper descriptions of these species along with their phenology, distribution, photographs, ecology and phytogeographical notes have been presented.
Highlights
The Himalaya, one of the important Global Biodiversity Hotspots due to its high diversity and endemism, endowed with an estimated 10,000 plant species, of which 71 genera and ca. 3160 species are endemic (Singh & Hajra 1996; Samant et al 1998)
The diversity of life forms, structure and composition of vegetation have always attracted a large number of naturalists, phyto-geographers, ecologists and several authors, who all have recognized the western Himalaya (Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand) as an important floristic region of India (Hooker 1907; Chatterjee 1939)
The state of Uttarakhand has about 68.4% of its geographic area under forest cover representing ca. 4,700 species of flowering plants (Uniyal et al 2007), which account for 27% the Indian flowering plants
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