Floristic Composition along Altidudinal Gradation in Devimane, Western Ghats, Karnataka

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted in Devimane, Western Ghats (Karnataka) to find out the floristic composition. This paper deals with floristic composition of the study area, which composed of 43 families represented by 130 species across all four altitudinal zone. The community coefficient among four altitudinal zones exhibited close relationship with more than 57 per cent of common species. high altitudinal zone was recorded highest species richness (10.53), Shannon index (3.61) and evenness index (0.86) as compared to rest of the altitudinal zones whereas study area recorded contiguous distribution, which is the commonest pattern in nature.