Observations on fertile populations of two Porella (Porellaceae, Marchantiophyta) species from Kumaun Region in the Western Himalaya, India

Authors

  • Meena Rai Department of Botany, C.M.P. College, Allahabad 211 002
  • Prateek Srivastava Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences, Amity University, Noida 201 303
  • Surendra Nath Srivastava Department of Botany, C.M.P. College, Allahabad 211 002

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2016.3.2.205

Keywords:

Porella, leafy liverwort, fertile specimens, Kumaun Region, Western Himalaya

Abstract

The unrecorded androecia and feebly described gynoecia in Indian specimens of two Porella species, namely, P. densifolia subsp. appendiculata (Steph.) S. Hatt.  and P. campylophylla var. ptychantha (Mitt.) F. Shaheen & S.C. Sriv., collected from Kumaun region in the state of Uttarakhand in Western Himalaya, are being described and compared besides observing variations in vegetative features of the plants.

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Author Biographies

Meena Rai, Department of Botany, C.M.P. College, Allahabad 211 002

Department of Botany, C.M.P. College, Allahabad 211 002

Prateek Srivastava, Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences, Amity University, Noida 201 303

Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences, Amity University, Noida 201 303

Surendra Nath Srivastava, Department of Botany, C.M.P. College, Allahabad 211 002

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Department of Botany, C.M.P. College, Allahabad 211 002

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16-04-2016

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Rai M, Srivastava P, Srivastava SN. Observations on fertile populations of two Porella (Porellaceae, Marchantiophyta) species from Kumaun Region in the Western Himalaya, India. Plant Sci. Today [Internet]. 2016 Apr. 16 [cited 2024 Nov. 4];3(2):142-8. Available from: https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/article/view/205

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