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International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2018, Volume : 6, Issue : 5
First page : (339) Last page : (345)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-6750

Diversity of Fern Flora for Ecological Perspective – A Review

Vidyashree1, Chandrashekar, S. Y.2*, Hemla Naik, B.3, Jadeyegowda, M.4 and
Revanna Revannavar5

1Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, College of Horticulture, Mudigere, Karnataka, India
2University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, India
3Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Forestry, Ponnampet, Karnataka, India
4Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, College of Horticulture, Mudigere, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: chandrashekar.sy@gmail.com
Received: 29.07.2018 | Revised: 26.08.2018 | Accepted: 3.09.2018

 

 ABSTRACT

One of the important cut foliage and indoor potted plant grown for its attractive foliages is fern. The foliage of fern is highly valued in the international florist greenery market because of its long post-harvest life, low cost, year round availability and versatile design qualities in form, texture and colour. Ferns (Pteridophytes) are the seedless vascular plants, dominated the vegetation on earth about 280-230 million years ago. Although they are now largely replaced by the seed bearing vascular plants in the existing flora today, yet they constitute a fairly prominent part of the present day vegetation of the world. India with a highly variable climate has a rich diversity of its flora and Pteridophytic flora greatly contributes to its diversity. Pteridophytes also form an interesting and conscious part of our national flora with their distinctive ecological distributional pattern. There are about 12,000 species of pteridophytes occur in the world flora, of which 1,000 species belonging to 70 families and 192 genera occur in the different parts of the present Indian political boundary. Western Himalaya and Western Ghats supported 399 and 349 pteridophytes species of fern and fern allies in India, respectively. Hence, it is need of the hour for documenting the available fern diversity and selection of superior genotypes.

Key words: Ferns, Pteridophytes, Diversity, Pollution.

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Cite this article: Vidyashree, Chandrashekar, S.Y., Hemla Naik, B., Jadeyegowda, M. and Revannavar, R., Diversity of Fern Flora for Ecological Perspective – A Review, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.6(5): 339-345 (2018). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.6750