A note on Radula  onraedtii Yamada, a poorly known liverwort species from Western Ghats, India: Research Article

Praveen Verma; Afroz  Alam

doi:10.21276/pt.2024.v1.i1.9

Authors

Praveen Kumar Verma FRI, Dehradun Author https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0990-1020
Afroz Alam Banasthali Vidyapith Author https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8575-4677

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21276/pt.2024.v1.i1.9

Keywords:

Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, Marchantiophyta, Radulaceae, Radula

Abstract

In present paper a poorly known species of genus Radula, R. onraedtii Yamada of Marchantiophyta from Nilgiri hills, Western Ghats is described and illustrated in bryo-flora of Western Ghats. This species is very little and scattered in distribution and is known only from very few localities of Arunachal Pradesh in Eastern Himalaya and Western Ghats in Indian bryoflora.

Author Biographies

Praveen Kumar Verma, FRI, Dehradun

Scientist D

ICFRE-Forest Research Institute, Post Office New Forest, Dehradun (Uttarakhand), India
Afroz Alam, Banasthali Vidyapith

Associate Professor

Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology

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