The paper presents a complete list of plants from Bangladesh deposited in the herbarium of the Botanical Survey of India at Shillong (ASSAM). A total of 448 species belonging to 324 genera and 101 families has been found to be deposited in the herbarium in Assam. Detailed field data of each species have also been provided.
We provide a checklist of grass flora along with the details of life form a ~ 6922 km2 area located in the southern part of Assam (Barak valley). This area harbors 98 grass species belonging to 49 genera of the Poaceae. Subfamily Panicoideae (52 species) had the highest number of species followed by Bambusoideae (25 species), Chloridoideae (13 species), Ehrhartoideae (4 species), Centothecoideae (3 species) and Arundinoideae (1 species), while subfamilies like Anomochlooideae, Aristidoideae, Danthonioideae, Pharoideae, Pooideae and Puelioideae were not represented. The region accounts ca. 32% of the diversity of grass flora of the state of Assam.
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