Reproductive Biology of Inula racemosa Hook. f.

Abstract

The accurate picture of the status of plants and the trends that have an impacting on them is difficult to determine. Further, the exact number of flowering plant species in the world is not fully known and documented.Natural habitats are currently being degraded at a rate that is unprecedented in the history, and massive extinctions of biota are likely to follow as a result.Under the pressures of globalization, continuous growth of human population, resources exploitation, and climate changes, the perturbation, displacement and/or destruction of natural habitats are real facts. Many important sites of Kashmir Himalaya were surveyed for assessing the distribution, growth and reproductive biology of Inula racemosa (Asteraceae). The select sites were demarcated on the basis of location, habitat structure, density, diversity and accessibility