Inventorying bamboo biodiversity of North Bengal: A Case Study
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Abstract
Bamboo harboring both herbaceous and woody members has both ecological and economic importance and is included
in the Non-timber forest product, but regional assessment is still lacking. North Bengal covers six districts including
both hills and plains are rich in biological diversity. It houses different genera having several species of bamboo.
Inventory resulted in recording of 34 species of bamboos under the tribe Bambuseae from North Bengal belonging to 13
genera of which 26 species (76.47%) under 8 genera are sympodial type while rest 8 species (23.53%) under 5 genera
belongs to monopodial type. In spite of having extensive insufficiency and discrepancies of bamboo taxonomy and
distribution, this approach may help in the conservation of this natural resource. Enumeration of different species with
botanical name, common name, vernacular name(s), the sub tribe they belong to and the type of rhizome is provided.
However extensive study is required to know emphatically about the bamboo diversity of this region
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