Macrophytes Diversity in Wetlands of North Dinajpur District, West Bengal, India

Aquatic macrophytes comprise of taxonomically most diverse groups of macroscopic angiosperms that have great ecological impact to aquatic ecosystem. Macrophytes perform significant role in aquatic food webs and serve as host for others different ecological function as these are the most important element of aquatic ecosystem. The aim of the present study is to analysis the floristic composition and diversity of macrophytes from10 selected study areas along with their proper documentation for further research. The configuration of entire work are survey of selected wetlands, information gathered from local people, collection of macrophytes, documentation, description, and identification of collected species followed by checking their accepted names. The 66 species of vascular plants under 50 genera belonging to 27 families were recorded. Poaceae is the most dominant family with 11species.This study may consider as an important database of documented aquatic macrophytes from selected wetlands in North Dinajpur district which enables the future research work regarding this field and also may generate the global awareness about conservation of biodiversity of the concerned district.