Flora Of Barak Valley, Assam, With Their Economic Utility, Volume 1 Herbaceous Flora

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Flora of Barak Valley, Assam With Their Economic Utility, Volume 1 is a pioneering floristic work on the valley, particularly on herbaceous flora. The present book provides historical and geographical features of vegetation patterns, materials and methods along with detailed taxonomic treatments of the collected species. The unique features lie in providing the economic utility of the collected species based on field data and comparison with established reports on utility. Flora Of Barak Valley, Assam, With Their Economic Utility, Volume 1 also contains analytical drawings and field photographs for the vast majority of the collected herbaceous flora. A total of 596 species belonging to 142 families of herbaceous flora have been enumerated, out of which 83 species having 34 families represent fern and fern-allies and the remaining 513 species with 108 families belong to the Angiosperms. The book records some very interesting species as regards their diverse economic and ethnobotanical features. Lastly, the book includes reports of some new, rare and threatened species.

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