Algal Flora of Dehradun District, Uttaranchal

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The present work on the Algal Flora of Dehradun district, Uttaranchal has been carried out to assess and inventorise the algal diversity in an area encompassing varied ecoclimatic zones. The flora has a rich assemblage of many interesting algae. Unfortunately, the area being a tourist spot, is subjected to severe anthropogenic activities which are causing extreme stress conditions on the algal habitats. The flora deals with taxonomic treatment of 321 taxa, of which, 150 belonging to chlorophyceae, 81 to Myxophyceae, 53 to Bacillariophyceae, 18 to Euglenineae, 5 to Xanthophyceae and 2 each to Dinophyceae and Rhodophyceae, each with original citation, description, phenology, habitat, association, field numbers, etc. Taxonomic keys and camera lucida drawings of all taxa have also been provided.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R.K. Gupta

Shri R.K. Gupta, is a disciple of one of the greatest saints of the Naqshbandi Order Thakur Ram Singh Ji, an officer in the Police Department of the erstwhile Jaipur State, who earned his livelihood by the sweat of his brow and reared his family. During his lifetime itself he had become a legendary figures because of his honesty and sincerity, and devotion to his Master Mahatma Ram Chandra ji Maharaj of Fatehgarh, UP. Born in 1950, the author had the fortune to visit his Master at the young age of 15 years, when his father, Dr. Chandra Gupta, took him to the pious feet of Thakur Ram Singh Ji. A man of few words, Thakur Ram singh ji left a deep impression and sowed the seed of Love in the heart of the author, in the first sight itself. The author spend his formative years from 1966 to 1970 under the gracious auspices of Thakur Ram Singh Ji and thereafter under Dr. Chandra Gupta, his father, who also was a great Sufi Master.