Palynological Studies in Some Ornamental Plants from Kolhapur District

Plants grow throughout the world in different forms exhibiting different habits and different habitats. Plants are very useful to mankind with respect to variety of uses as shelter, food, and many other basic needs required by us. Apart from all these aspects some plants also provide us with visual delight e.g. ornamental plants. An ornamental plant is meant for decoration of the gardens, landscapes and home gardens. Often they are exotic one or are introduced from various localities. The main purpose of them is to decorate the garden sites in the sense of which they are too much neglected in basic sciences in terms of proper taxonomy, morphological descriptions, and many other studies. In the light of which these studies were undertaken to reveal some aspects of the ornamentals in the areas of especially morphological and palynological views. Present study reveals the detailed description and micrometry related palynological studies of fifty different ornamental plants.