ABSTRACT
Central India represents a greater diversity of forest ecosystems and holds a variety of flora and fauna. Plant diversity reflects their habitat and presence in any eco-regions that influence by varying topography, edaphic quality, biotic, and climatic situations. However, the study of floral diversity entails a dynamic nature of vegetational structure and its compositions in any ecological region. Moreover, government and private educational institutions can play a major role in both conservation and management of this floral diversity under the scope of tree outside forest. The study quantifies the vegetation structure and compositions in IGKV campus and gives an idea about floral diversity, their composition and its use by people. The campus endowed variety of plant species. A total 90 families were recorded comprised 267 plant species, of which Poaceae represented as the largest 162family comprised 31 plant species. Different life forms were recorded in the order of Herbs (60.29%) > trees (22.09%) > shrubs (11.61%) > herb/ climbers (4.86%) > herb/vines (1.12%), respectively whereas recorded families are in order of Poaceae (34.44%) > Fabaceae (25.55%) > Euphorbiaceous (14.44%) > Asteraceae (12.22%) > Malvaceae (11.11%), respectively while rest families showed intermediate and a smaller number of species. The recorded plants are also checked by Red data book to know the status of plants and their conservation status. In a nutshell, the university campus harbors a variety of flora and fauna that delivering multifarious ecosystem services through enhancing biodiversity and provides tangible and intangible benefits to peoples along with maintaining food-soil-climate security for ecological stability.
