Litsea deccanensis is a semi-evergreen wet season blooming tree species. It displays dioecy with staminate and pistillate trees occurring in 2.8:1 ratio at the study location. The inflorescence is a solitary and compound pseudo-umbel with involucral bracts each one producing several staminate or pistillate nectariferous florets. The floral traits indicate myophily but in reality the tree species is entomophilous. Natural fruit set rate stands at the most 16%. Barochory and zoochory are the modes of fruit dispersal.
Litsea deccanensis is a semi-evergreen wet season blooming tree species. It displays dioecy with staminate and pistillate trees occurring in 2.8:1 ratio at the study location.
Most of Sandalwood species occur in East Asia, Australia and South Asia including India, Sri Lanka and Nepal at the foot hills of the Himalayas. The Sandalwood is apparently confined to the elevation below 1200 m. and is exotic species for Nepal
Cycas sphaerica and C. beddomei are traditionally important for food and medicine in their distributional areas. They are indiscriminately exploited in the most unscientific manner and this has resulted in the reduction of their living populations
The present study found new distributional records of 16 flowering plant taxa to Tamil Nadu state from southern Western Ghats. The additional plant species are namely Alpinia fax, Ardisia stonei, Cuscuta krishnae, Impatiens minae, I. munnarensis, Gomphostemma keralensis, Bulbophyllum aureoflavum, B. mysorense, Oberonia josephii, O. longibracteata, O. swaminathanii, Sauropus saksenanus, Polypleurum disciforme, Ophiorrhiza radicans, Solanum pseudocapsicum var. diflorum and Zingiber neesanum
A distinct new species of Liparis, L. tortilis (Orchidaceae) is described based on samples collected in the Wayanad Forests of southern Western Ghats, India
The recognition of Aenigmatias dorni (Enderlein) is clarified. A.pyrenaicum (Becker) is rescued from synonymy with A. dorni. A.necdorni sp. nov. is described from Poland. A.marinaae sp. nov. and A. taigaensis sp. nov. are described from Russia.
Garra ranganensis, is described from the Ranga River in the upper Brahmaputra River drainage in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Garra ranganensis is distinguished from its congeners belonging to Brahmaputra
A new species of Sonerila (Melastomataceae), S. epeduncula from South Western Ghats is described here. Taxonomic descriptions, morphological differences to their allied taxa and colour photographs are provided to facilitate easy identification in the field.
The jumping spider genus Metacyrba F. O. Pickard–Cambridge, 1901 (Salticidae: Marpissinae) is recorded for first time from Colombia, with the species Metacyrba punctata (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) in mangrove forest and Metacyrba venusta (Chickering, 1946) in humid forest from the Córdoba department
Metaphorura Zhongi sp. n. from Sejila Mountain of Tibet is described and illustrated. It is characterized by the presence of 1+1 pseudocelli on thoracic segment I, few elongate vesicles (17–18) on PAO, pseudocellar formula as 11/122/22221
Study on bird species diversity and distribution is important for conservation efforts in different protected area. However, bird diversity and distribution is little known in Ethiopia
Paracanthocobitis tumitensis sp. nov. is described from a stream Tumit in the northern part of Chandel district of Manipur State, India, which forms a part of the Chindwin basin
A new species of Oberonia, O. saint-berchmansii (Orchidaceae) is described based on samples collected in the Cardamom Hills of southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India
Humans have been always fascinated by birds. The human-bird association is since ancient times and is an intimate one. Birds have always served humans with incalculable services since they are consistent indicators of a healthy ecosystem
The study investigates the major challenges that posed greater risk to Biodiversity and the reasons for their extinction. Personal observation was applied as the methodology for the study. Biodiversity in their natural habitats were examined to determine the pattern of connectivity
This study was carried out at the University of Port Harcourt, Green House to investigate the growth performance of Vigna radiata in petrol contaminated soil amended with Centrosema pubescens.
Context: Dry Afromontane forests are the most altered and endangered ecosystems. Objectives: This study was aimed to assess the status of basal area, and vegetation structure of woody plant species in Debra-libanos Monastery forest patch (DMFP) in Oromia Region.
In Syrian coastal water, the number of species that are registered for the first time from various taxonomic units is growing; most of which are non-Mediterranean and belong to warm water species.
The Bharsakhale sacred grove is very unique in floral diversity. It comprises of 177 flowering plant species under 137 genera belonging to 65 families.
Maize stem borer, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) is one of the major pests of maize causing a huge loss to production
This research investigated woody vegetation composition, frequencies, densities and importance value indices for woody species at El-Salam Locality, West Kordofan State, Sudan during 2016.
This research was conducted in Sheikan locality, North Kordofan State during 2014 - 2015. It aimed to assess vegetation cover change by comparing changes in density and composition of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants in the period 2014 and 2015 with that of 2007.
Osyris quadrrpartita, is an economically important plant species that occurs in most Ethiopian regions, but its population status, threat, habitat preference and its associated plant species have not been studied in Oromia region, Ethiopia
Catenomycopsis vinayaka sp. nov., isolated as root endophyte from a high altitude riparian plant grown in Vinayak, Nainital, Kumaun Himalaya, India, is illustrated and described
Geranium molle L. var. album, is reported for the first time from Sqoubin district belongs to Lattakia governorate, it is morphologically described and photographed.
