Research Article
Diversity of Fabaceae Species in Ballari and Vijayanagar District
Kavitha Sagar* and Sharanabasav Amarappa
Department of P.G. Studies & Research in Botany, Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Ballari, India
*Corresponding author: Kavitha Sagar, Department of P.G. Studies & Research in Botany, Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Ballari, India. E-mail Id: drkamsgg@gmail.com
Copyright: © Sagar K, et al. 2023. 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: 13/04/2023; Accepted: 15/06/2023; Published: 20/06/2023
Abstract
Fabaceae is one of the largest orders of flowering plants. This order is distributed worldwide and exhibits the greatest diversity of morphological types in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Fabaceae comprises the major families such as Caesalpiniaceae, Mimosaceae and Papilionaceae. To explore the diversity of this family in Ballari District, regular field visits were made. This is one of the large agriculturally important family. It includes trees, shrubs, and herbs. This family containing ornamental, dye yielding, gum yielding and medicinal plants. Present study enumerated the Family Fabaceae with total 58genera, 122 species largest family Fabaceae covered most of the diversity. Of which 41.33% species are herb, 12.95% species are shrub and subshrub & climbing s herb 0.81% and 31.96% are trees each .The study was documented with flowering and fruiting seasons and distribution in the Ballari and
Vijayanagar localities.
Keywords: Acacia; Senna; Indigofera; Fabaceae