Study of the tidal vegetation of Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal, India.

Author(s): Dulal Chandra Das*, Maniklal Pati, Ghanashyam Mahato, Monalisa Das

Abstract

The coastal part of Purba Medinipur District of West Bengal has wide variation in the composition of vegetation. Its 68 km coastal belt started from the mohana of Rasulpur river at Hijli sarif of Khejuri extended up to the Udoypur beach of Digha border. This tidal zone is the mouth of Bay of Bengal and showed a great variety of aquatic plants. The total coastal belt is divided into 10 sections: Hijli-Sarif Petuaghat, Bankiput, Junput, Haripur, Shoula, Mandarmoni, Tajpur, Sankarpur and Digha for the brevity of investigation. The present comprehensive study reported 23 angiospermic species of which 9 species are mangrove and rest 14 species are mangrove associates. Mangrove species found in high frequency in Hijli-sarif, Petuaghat, Bankiput, Sankarpur and Digha mohana. The richness of tidal vegetation is greatly hampered due to dry fish industries as well as continuous ferry activities of fisherman. At present this tidal vegetation is under severe threat.

Share this article

International Journal of Bioassays is a member of the Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA), CROSSREF and CROSSMARK (USA). Digital Object Identifier (DOI) will be assigned to all its published content.