A Taxonomic Reconnaissance in Himachal Vihar Complex, Matigara, Siliguri, West Bengal
Anindita Choudhuri, Sukanta Majumdar* And Archan Bhattacharya**
*Department of Botany, Gour Banga University ** Department of Botany, APC Roy Govt. College * Corresponding Address: Archan Bhattacharya, Department of Botany APC Roy Govt. College, Himachal Vihar Matigara, Siliguri, Darjeeling West Bengal, 734 010 (India) Mob. No. 9475 2757 63 e mail: dnarna@rediffmail.com
ABSTRACT
Considering the preparation of a taxonomic document of the urban phytodiversity in Himachal Vihar Complex (Matigara, Siliguri, Darjeeling), present effort brings out a list of 241vascular 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 heterogeneity. The tree diagram shows that at linkage distance 1.420 Kishalay and Himachal Vihar Flora segregate from others indicating the effect of anthropogenic influence. Some ecological disturbances in the area possibly function as ‘intermediate disturbance’ and contribute to increase in species richness, lending support to the "Intermediate disturbance hypothesis".