Abstract

PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON TEPHROSIA PURPUREA L. IN VINDHYA REGION

Rashmi Arnold, *Seema Tiwari and R. M. Mishra

Abstract

Ecological studies determines the influence of environment on the lifeof plants and crops community. The structure of a community isformed with the continuous interaction of climatic, edaphic and bioticfactors. A competition among the different species as well as the samespecies also affects greatly the structure of the community. Thusduring the course of present investigation only the qualitativecharacters viz. Frequency, Density, Dominance and Importance ValueIndex has calculated to assess the structure of the community in whichthe plant Tephrosia purpurea L. flourishes. In the present study,Tephrosia purpurea and its associates have been recorded in the four districts viz. Rewa,Satna, Sidhi and Shahdol of the Vindhyan region.

Keywords: Tephrosia purpurea, Frequency, Density, Dominance and Importance Value Index etc.