Malvaceae of Jammu and Kashmir State, India

e Malvaceae of the Jammu and Kashmir State are reviewed with a complete synopsis of the taxa recorded e m ne species xa ° micranthus is a new reco Jammu and Kashmir State.All the taxa are keyed, and the species are provided ity.with descriptions and usually followed by brief notes on distribution and economic utili In Hooker's Flora of British India (1874), Masters recognized 108 malvaceous species in 27 genera and sorted these into four tribes: Malveae, Ureneae, Hibisceae, and Bombaceae.As the tribe Bombaceae is now referred to family Bombacaceae, 97 species in 19 genera remain from Masters's listing.Of these, ten species in seven genera were cited from Jammu and Kashmir State.Many additional species have been described from this area since Hooker's publication, and the nomenclature of most of the species included there has changed.Lambert (1933), in his list of trees and shrubs for the Jammu and Kashmir forest circles, listed the then-known arborescent taxa of the family.Stewart (1972) catalogued 70 species in 16 genera in West Pakistan and Kashmir.Of these, 30 species in 12 genera, including those based on literature, were listed from the Jammu and Kashmir State.Following Stewart, Abedin (1979) monographed the Malvaceae of West Pakistan, listing 94 specific and infraspecific taxa in 19 genera.However, Jammu and Kashmir materials are poorly represented in this work.Many of the collections referred by Stewart to our state are not mentioned by Abedin.Lately, many local workers have included the family in floristic works (Javeid, 1970; Javeid &