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Pteridological Research
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Exploration and season wise monitoring of Pteridophytes in Southern Western Ghats
Muthiah MARIDASS and Ganapathy RAJU
Department of Zoology, Pioneer Kumaraswamy College, (Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University), Nagercoil,Tamil nadu-629003,India.
Abstract
Pteridophytes are preliminary vascular and seedless first land plants. The aim of the present study was exploration and season wise monitoring of pteridophytes from KMTR regions in the period from 2015-2016. The frequently field visit in every month of 2015-2016 periods, collected, taking photographs and identified. A total of fifty-eight species of pteridophytes identified. Which belongs to which belongs to 35genera and 32 families were authentically documented in KMTR regions, Southern Western Ghats, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari District, Tamil nadu. The family of Pteridaceae was present in the dominant family in the study area of Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari District.
Keywords: Pteridophytes, Diversity, KMTR region, Sothern Western Ghats, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari District,Tamil nadu.
Current Volume No. 7(1) June,2018
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