PRIMITIVE AND ADVANCE CHARACTERS IN SOME FERNS FROM NEPAL
VIDYA LAXMI GURUNG *
Scientific Officer, National Herbarium & Botanical Laboratory, GPO Box 1370 Kathmandu, Nepal.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
As compared to the Pteridophyte group of plants of Eastern as well as Western Himalayas, this group of plants of Nepal, Central Himalaya have not yet been received due attention from evolutionary or phylogenetic point of veiw. This paper fulfils immediate need by providing photographs of some 30 species of ferns with primitive and advance characters from this area.
Keywords: Pteridophytic flora, primitive and advance characters, phylogenetic