Floristic composition of the forest areas under Bankati Gram Panchayat in Burdwan District, West Bengal
Tripti Bouri and Ambarish Mukherjee
UGC Centre for Advanced Study, Department of Botany, Golapbag, Burdwan University, Burdwan-713104 (India) E-mail:tripti_bouri07@rediffmail.com
ABSTRACT
A survey was undertaken to record the floristic composition of the tropical dry deciduous Sal forest prevailing under Bankati Gram Panchayat, Burdwan district. This work enumerates only 41 plant species belonging to 40 genera and 29 families of angiosperms. The Generic Coefficient was found to be 97.56 indicating high diversification. Habit analysis of the vegetation shows that tree: shrub: herb ratio is 15:8:14. The impoverished state of the existing forest flora is mainly due to overexploitation of its phytoresources and acute soil erosion.