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Plant Science Today (PST)

Special Section: New Frontiers in Cryptogamic Botany

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016)

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2016.3.2.205
Submitted
8 March 2016
Published
16-04-2016

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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