Volume 24, Issue 73, January - June, 2023

Addition of one hundred and forty-seven new vascular taxa to the flora of Bangladesh

Md Salah Uddin^1♦, Abdullah-Al-Masud Mazumder², Shaikh Bokhtear Uddin³

¹Department of Biology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea Republic
²Silviculture Research Division, Bangladesh Forest Research Institute, Sholashahar, Chattogram 4000, Bangladesh
³Ethnobotany and Pharmacognosy Lab., Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Chattogram 4331, Bangladesh

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Biology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566 Korea Republic

ABSTRACT

All 147 new vascular taxa that are added to the flora of Bangladesh in this study are not included in Flora of British India, Bengal Plants, The Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, or Rahman's research publications. These new taxa are categorized into 111 genera and 53 families. A total of 3,956 vascular taxa have been reported for the flora of Bangladesh from this updated compilation. In addition to the seventeen genera that are being reported here as new generic records for Bangladesh, ten taxa that are novel to the world flora have been discovered. According to the study, six families, including Orchidaceae (22 taxa), Acanthaceae (18 taxa), Rubiaceae (11 taxa), Euphorbiaceae (10 taxa), Araceae (8 taxa) and Commelinaceae (6 taxa) contain the highest number of new taxa. Nomenclature, family name, citation and precise locations are listed for each taxon.

Keywords: New additions, new records, new species, vascular taxa, Flora of Bangladesh

Species, 2023, 24(73), e13s1013

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e13s1013

Published: 7 February 2023