ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF BANDA, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA

Abstract

Three species of angiosperm belonging to two families have been recorded in Banda district, which are new additions to the flora of Banda viz. Flueggea virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Royle, Prosopis cineraria Druce and Albizia amara .

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ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF BANDA, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA
*JASWINDER KAUR, KAUSHAL SINGH1 AND SATYA NARAIN
Duhie Herbarium, Department of Botany,
University of Allahabad,
ALLAHABAD-211002, U.P.
1Department of Silviculture and Agroforestry,
College of Forestry,
Banda University of Agriculture and Technology,
BANDA-210001 U.P.
*Corresponding Author
Email: manjasvirdi@gmail.com
Received
: 01.05.2018;
Accepted
: 14.11.2018
ABSTRACT
Three species of angiosperm belonging to two families have been recorded in Banda district, which are new additions
to the flora of Banda
viz. Flueggea virosa
(Roxb. ex Willd.) Royle,
Prosopis cineraria
Druce and
Albizia amara
.
Figures : 03 References : 14 Table : 00
KEY WORDS : Banda, Euphorbiaceae, Flora, Mimosaceae, New addition.
Introduction
Banda is one of the seven districts of Bundelkhand
region of Uttar Pradesh which is at the bank of river Ken.
The floristic studies of Banda district were done2 as a
pioneer work. After that there were studies in detail for
the Flora of Upper Gangetic Plain. A worker8 recorded
Alectra parasitica
a new species from Banda. Total 106
new species were reported as contribution to the flora of
Banda6,7,11,12,13. Ethnobotanical studies of Banda district
were done4,10. The present paper gives an enumerative
account of additional three woody plant species that are
new to the region.
Material and Method
The plants were identified as per taxonomic
classification using state and regional flora1,5,9,14.
Specimens of the plants mentioned in this paper have
been deposited in “BUAT Herbarium”, College of Forestry,
Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda.
The continued surveys and extensive review of literature
revealed that the three plant species are new records for
the flora of Banda. A brief taxonomic description of these
plant species with correct nomenclature, phenology,
localities and photographs (Fig. 1-3) are given in this
paper.
TAXONOMIC DESCRIPTION:
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Flueggea virosa
(Roxb. ex Willd.) Royle, Ill. Bot.
Himal. Mts.: 328. 1836; Khanna. Geophytology. 47(1):
99. 2017.
Phyllanthus hamrur
Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.:
159. 1775, nom. rej.
Phyllanthus virosus
Roxb. ex Willd.,
Sp. Pl. 4: 578. 1805.
Xylophylla obovata
Willd., Enum.
Pl.: 329. 1809.
Bessera inermis
Spreng., Pl. Min. Cogn.
Pug. 2: 90. 1815.
Drypetes bengalensis
Spreng., Syst.
Veg. 3: 902. 1826, nom. superfl.
Flueggea microcarpa
Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 580. 1826; Hook. f. Fl. Brit.
Ind. 5: 328. 1887.
Phyllanthus obtusus
Schrank, Syll.
Pl. Nov. 2: 65. 1826.
Phyllanthus angulatus
Schumach.
& Thonn. in C. F. Schumacher, Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 415.
1827.
Phyllanthus dioicus
Schumach. & Thonn. in C. F.
Schumacher, Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 416. 1827.
Flueggea angulata
(Schumach. & Thonn.) Schrank, Fl.
Syll. Ratisb. 2: 65. 1828.
Phyllanthus retusus
Roxb., Fl.
Ind. ed. 1832, 3: 657. 1832, nom. illeg.
Cicca pentandra
Blanco, Fl. Filip.: 701. 1837.
Phyllanthus lucidus
Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 327.
1841, not validly publ.
Flueggea retusa
Voigt, Hort.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : The authors are highly thankful to Directory Research and Honorable Vice-
Chancellor of Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda and HOD, Department of Botany,
University of Allahabad for providing necessary facilities.

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Suburb. Calcutt.: 152. 1845.
Phyllanthus polygamus
Hochst. ex A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 256. 1850, pro
syn.
Securinega abyssinica
A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2:
256. 1850.
Flueggea abyssinica
(A. Rich.) Baill., Étude
Euphorb.: 593. 1858.
Flueggea ovalis
Baill., Étude
Euphorb.: 593. 1858.
Flueggea phyllanthoides
Baill., Étude
Euphorb.: 592. 1858.
Phyllanthus leucophyllus
Strachey
& Winterb. ex Baill., Étude Euphorb.: 593. 1858.
Bradleia dioica
(Schumach. & Thonn.) Gaertn. ex Vahl,
Recueil Observ. Bot. 1: 80. 1860.
Phyllanthus
reichenbachianus
Sieber ex Baill., Adansonia 1: 80. 1860,
pro syn.
Flueggea senensis
Klotzsch in W. C. H. Peters,
Naturw. Reise Mossambique 6(1): 106. 1861.
Securinega
virosa
(Roxb. ex Willd.) Baill., Adansonia 6: 334. 1866.
Securinega grisea
Müll.Arg. in A. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
15(2): 451. 1866.
Securinega microcarpa
(Blume) Müll.
Arg. in A. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(2): 434. 1866.
Securinega obovata
(Willd.) Müll.Arg. in A. P. de Candolle,
Prodr. 15(2): 449. 1866.
Securinega leucopyrus
Brandis,
Forest Fl. N.W. India: 456. 1874.
Cicca obovata
(Willd.)
Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 2: 354. 1877.
Flueggea obovata
(Willd.) Wall. ex Fern.-Vill. in F. M. Blanco, Fl. Filip., ed.
3, 4(13A): 189. 1880, nom. illeg.
Acidoton virosus
(Roxb.
ex Willd.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 592. 1891.
Acidoton griseus
(Müll. Arg.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2:
592. 1891.
Acidoton obovatus
(Willd.) Kuntze, Revis.
Gen. Pl. 2: 592. 1891.
Acidoton phyllanthoides
(Baill.)
Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 592. 1891.
Diasperus
hamrur
(Forssk.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 599. 1891.
Diasperus portoricensis
Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 602.
1891.
Phyllanthus portoricensis
(Kuntze) Urb., Symb.
Antill. 4: 338. 1905.
Flueggea obovata
var.
luxurians
A.
Chev. ex Beille, Mém. Soc. Bot. France 8: 55. 1908.
Conami portoricensis
(Kuntze) Britton, Bot. Porto Rico
5: 475. 1924. Vern.:
Salpi, Salpa.
(Fig. 1.)
Large shrub, 1-8 m height with angular branches.
Leaves 4-5 x 2.5-4 cm, alternate, ovate–elliptic, acute at
base, apex emarginate, stipulate, 1- 2 mm long stipules,
ovate, lanceolate. Flower minute greenish brown, axillary
clusters, Male flowers glomerules 20-40. Perianth 5 lobed
ovate sub-obtuse. Female flowers 1-10, pedicellate. Fruits
4.5-5.5 mm diameter, depressed, subglobose, white
fleshy; seeds plano-convex, fainty reticulate, 2-2.5 mm
long, triangular, punctuate, brown.
Locality: On edges of thickets of plants in front of DM
compound and Kabristan in Banda.
Fl.: February-March, Fr.: August-September.
Family: Mimosaceae
Prosopis cineraria
(L.) Druce in Rep. Bot. Exch. Club
Soc. Brit. Isles 3: 422. 1913 (publ. 1914); Khanna.
Geophytology. 47(1): 99. 2017.
Acacia cineraria
(L.) Willd.
Fig. 1: Flowering branch of
Flueggea virosa
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in Sp. Pl. 4: 1057. 1806.
Adenanthera aculeata
(J. Koenig
ex Roxb.) W. Hunter in Asiat. Res. 6: 66. 1799.
Mimosa
cineraria
L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 1311. 1759.
Prosopis
aculeata
J. Koenig ex Roxb. in Asiat. Res. 4: 405. 1795.
Prosopis spicata
Burm.f. in Fl. Indica: 102. 1768.
Prosopis
spicigera
L. in Mant. Pl.: 68. 1767; Baker in Hook.f., Fl.
Brit. Ind. 2: 288. 1878. Vern.:
Shami, Chhokar
(Fig. 2).
Medium size tree with glabrous branches, armed
with scattered prickles, Leaves compound, bipinnate;
rachis 3-5 cm long; pinnae mostly 2-pairs, opposite, 2.5-
8 cm long; leaflet 8-12 pairs, sessile and mucronate at
apex. Flowers yellow to creamy, short peduncle 8-12 cm
long panicle spike. Calyx 0.5-1.5 mm, truncate, slightly
5-toothed. Corolla ca 3mm. Pods straight, torulose, 10-
20 cm long. Seeds 10-18, light brown.
Locality: In Agriculture fields and in campus of Banda
University of Agriculture and Technology, Mawai Bujurg,
Banda.
Fl.: January-April, Fr.: March-June.
Albizia amara
(Roxb.) Boivin in P.-S.Laurentie & al.,
Encycl. Dix-Neuvième Siécle 2: 34. 1837; Baker in hook.f.
Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 301. 1878.
Mimosa amara
Roxb. in Pl.
Coromandel 2: 13. 1799.
Acacia amara
(Roxb.) Willd.
in Sp. Pl. 4: 1074. 1806.
Mimosa glauca
J. Koenig ex
Roxb. in Hort. Bengal.: 41. 1814.
Acacia
nellyrenza
Graham in N. Wallich, Numer. List: no. 5240.
1831.
Acacia wightiana
Graham in N. Wallich, Numer.
List: no. 5259. 1831.
Albizia wightiana
Graham in N.
Wallich, Numer. List: no. 5259. 1831.
Mimosa
nellyrenza
B. Heyne in N. Wallich, Numer. List: no. 5240.
1831.
Mimosa pulchella
Roxb. in Fl. Ind. ed. 1832, 2:
548. 1832.
Albizia wightii
Wight & Arn. in Prodr. Fl. Ind.
Orient.: 274. 1834.
Acacia wightii
Graham ex Wight &
Arn. in Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.: 274. 1834.
Acacia
sericocephala
Fenzl in Flora 27: 312. 1844.
Inga
seriococephala
A. Rich. in Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 236. 1847.
Albizia affinis
E. Fourn. in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4,
14: 371. 1860.
Albizia gracilifolia
Harms in Notizbl. Bot.
Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 8: 146. 1922. Vern.:
Seljhari
(Fig.
3).
Medium size tree with thin grey, rough, scaly bark,
Fig. 2: Leafy branches of
Prosopis cineraria
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branchlets pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, alternate,
stipulate. Rachis 5-10 cm long, pinnae 4-15 pairs, 3-8
cm long, leaflets15-30 pairs. Flowers head 1-2 cm across.
Creamy, fragrant. Peduncles several and axillary. Calyx
ca 1.2-1.3 mm long, funnel shaped. Corolla ca 3-4 mm.
Stamens many, 1.2-1.5 cm. Ovary stipitate, style filiform,
stigma minute. Pods, 12-24 X 2.2-3.5 cm, greyish brown,
6-12 seeded. Seeds compressed.
Locality: Along the Chitrakoot and Banda roadside
and at Maharana Pratap crossing at Banda.
Fl.: February-April, Fr.: April-July.
Fig. 3: Flowering branch of
Albizia amara
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