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Plant Science Today (PST)

Special Section: New Frontiers in Cryptogamic Botany

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016)

Diversity and distribution of Pteridophytes from Satara District, Maharashtra (India)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2016.3.2.216
Submitted
16 March 2016
Published
23-04-2016

Abstract

The diversity and distribution along different ecological gradients of eighty six species of pteridophytes from the Satara district were studied. Amongst these species most common species were viz., Adiantum philippense, Aleuritopteris bicolor, Azolla pinnata subdp. asiatica, Marsilea minuta, Pityrogramma calomelanos, Pteridum revolutum, Pteris vittata, Selaginella ciliris and Tectaria coadunata. 

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