Volume 25, Issue 75, January - June, 2024

Miscanthus nepalensis (Trin.) Hack, an addition to the flora of Jammu & Kashmir state, India

Kuntal Saha¹, Manoj Chandran², Ranjana Negi³, Akhtar H Malik⁴, Saurabh Guleri¹, Nasrin Parvin^5♦

¹Department of Botany, Shri Guru Ram Rai University, Patel Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001, India
²Indian Forest Service, Uttarakhand Forest Department, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001, India
³Systematic Botany Discipline, Forest Botany Division, Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248006, India
⁴Centre for Biodiversity & Taxonomy, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 190006, Jammu & Kashmir, India
⁵Applied & Molecular Mycology & Plant Pathology Laboratory, Department of Botany, The University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, 713104, West Bengal, India

^♦Corresponding author
Applied & Molecular Mycology & Plant Pathology Laboratory, Department of Botany, The University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, 713104, West Bengal, India

ABSTRACT

The current study reports a new record, Miscanthus nepalensis (Trin.) Hack. (Poaceae) in the flora of Jammu and Kashmir based on the data collected from three locations in the northwestern Kashmir Himalayas and the western Himalayas of Jammu. This result marks its first documented presence in the flora of Jammu and Kashmir. The report offers an in-depth account of the macro and micro-morphological features of the plant, complete with illustrations. It also includes a geo-coordinate map that indicates the locations of the newly documented specimen. The report also contains ecological information about the species like distribution, blooming and fruiting times, and habitat features.

Keywords: Kashmir Himalayas, Miscanthus, new report, Poaceae, Western Himalayas

Species, 2024, 25(75), e25s1671

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e25s1671

Published: 25 May 2024