Geographical Distribution of Sageraea laurina Dalzell.

ABSTRACT

Background: The Western Ghats is one of the Mega Biodiversity hot spots at the global level due to its high number of endemic plant species. That plant species, especially the endemics, have been reported and published in Red Data Book regularly. Sageraea laurina Dalzell. belongs to the plant family Annonacea. It is endemic to Western Ghats of India. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) provided the status of this plant which is present in the Western Ghats. This is coming under near threat in the Western Ghats. The present distribution of S. laurina is only restricted to the Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states only. Methods: For primary data collection used repeated surveys of some areas under study using GPS. For secondary data collection used different literature such as Floras, database and herbarium consultation from BSI and ARI, Pune. Their taxonomy was re-investigated to confirm their taxonomic distinctness and Identification and classification of S. laurina Dalzell by using different Floras. Results: During the study, 118 different GPS localities were noted in the Western Ghats of India. The population distribution of this species covered the Northern (81%), Central (16%), and Southern (3%) Western Ghats of India. Conclusion: In the present study, we are generating primary and secondary data to stand a species in the IUCN category. Generated data used for conservation of this species. The major goal of the species recovery programme will be to re-establish the populations within their natural habitat.