A Taxonomic Documentation of Kishalay Boy’s Home Campus at Barasat in District North 24-Parganas, West Bengal
Rakesh Kumar Biswas, Archan Bhattacharya* and Subhasis Panda
*Department of Botany, APC Roy Govt. College, Himachal Vihar, Matigara, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal, 734 010 (India)
ABSTRACT
Considering the preparation of a taxonomic document of the urban phytodiversity, present effort brings out a list of 137 vascular plant species. At all specific, generic and family levels, dicots have much greater contribution to the flora. The high number of angiospermic families, most of which nest few species gives an indication of considerable diversity (heterogeneity). The tree diagram, prepared on the basis of ten dominant families shows the closeness of the concerned flora to those of the Sonamukhi (Bankura), Gangetic Plain and preindependent Bengal. Some ecological disturbances in the area possibly function as ‘intermediate disturbance’ and contribute to increase in diversity, lending support to the intermediate disturbance hypothesis.