Diversity, Indigenousness and Global Conservation Status of Leguminous Plants of Gujarat State, India

Gujarat State has tremendous diversity of leguminous plants revealed as per secondary information received from literature during the study. The current study showed that Gujarat State harbored 368 taxa (339 species, 12 subspecies and 17 varieties) of Leguminous plant which are represented in 105 genera and these all taxa belong to three sub families i.e. Caesalpiniaceae, Mimosaceae and Papilionaceae. All these Legumes are ranging from herbaceous vegetation to woody vegetation in which herbaceous vegetation comprised of 158 taxa, trees with 92 taxa, shrubs or under shrubs with 69 taxa and climbers with 49 taxa. The study also revealed that out of 368 taxa of leguminous plants, a total of 6 species have been categorized into threatened plants species (CR, EN and VU), 2 species in NT (n=2) and 360 species as LC, NE and DD (n=360) as per IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Among all leguminous plants of Gujarat, a total of 273 species have been considered indigenous plants, 93 leguminous plants as non-indigenous plants, remaining 2 species have been considered as hybrid plants.