Research Article
A Floristic Diversity of Maraladinni Village Forest Raichuru District, Karnataka
Savita and Kotresha*
Taxonomy and Floristic Lab., Department of Botany, Karnatak University’s Karnatak Science College, Dharwad - 580001,
India
*Corresponding author: Kotresha K, Taxonomy and Floristic Lab., Department of Botany, Karnatak University’s
Karnatak Science College, Dharwad - 580001, India; E-mail: kotresh_sk@yahoo.com
Copyright: © Savita R. 2022. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Article Information: Submission: 20/03/2022; Accepted: 27/04/2022; Published: 30/04/2022
Abstract
A survey on flora of Maraladinni (Maski Nala Yojana = MNY) was carried out from 2020 to 2021. Maraladinni lies between 16° 00’ 40’’ Latitude North
and 76° 33’ 30’’ Longitude East. The catchment has the total length of the Nala from it’s originates in the Kushtagi taluq of Koppal District and joins the river
Tungabhadra. It is nearly 132.80 Km length. In the present study the survey of floristic diversity reveals about 252 plant species belonging to 186 genera
and 56 families of Angiosperms. In that 29 polypetalae, 16 gamopetalae, 4 monochlamydae and 7 are monocotyledon families. Fabaceae is the top most
family comprises 18 genera and 41 species fallowed by Apocynaceae, 15 genera and 16 species. Poaceae 15 genera and 15 species , Euphorbiaceae
8 genera and 14 species and Amaranthaceae is 9 genera and 12 species, Rubiaceae is 8 genera 9 species, Convoluvulaceae 4 genera 8 species,
Capparaceae 3 genera 7 species, Boraginaceae 3 genera 6 species, Cucurbitaceae 5 genera 5 species respectively. Among the collected plant specimens
26 monocotyledons and 226 were dicotyledons (49 dicotyledons and 7 monocotyledonous families).