Campus flora of the College of Natural Resources, Lobesa, Bhutan

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Latest version published by National Biodiversity Centre on May 28, 2025 National Biodiversity Centre
Publication date:
28 May 2025
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Description

A survey was conducted to enumerate the flora of the College of Natural resources as an assignment for the Module “Systematic Botany and Ethnobotany”. This survey covered the boys hostel area and the agriculture field above the village covering 3.15 hectares. The survey showed that there is slightly a greater number of introduced plants than native plants in the study area. Largest number of plants were in family Asteraceae. Herbs represent the dominant type of plant. This checklist has some plants encountered from the above mentioned place within the college campus along with occurrence data but it does not represent the overall campus flora.

Data Records

The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 157 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Taxon (core)
157
Occurrence 
239

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Phuentsho P (2025). Campus flora of the College of Natural Resources, Lobesa, Bhutan. Version 1.12. National Biodiversity Centre. Checklist dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=campus_flora_cnr_bhutan&v=1.12

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 30b3651b-bdd5-48da-bef4-7b225dc3a772.  National Biodiversity Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Bhutan; Checklist; College of Natural Resources; Flora of CNR; Inventoryregional; Bhutan; Checklist; College of Natural Resources; Flora of CNR

Contacts

Phuentsho Phuentsho
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Biodiversity Officer
National Biodiversity Centre
11001 Thimphu
Thimphu
BT
Krishna Prasad Dhimal
  • Content Provider
  • Forestry Officer
Department of Forests and Park Services
Samdrup Jongkhar
BT
Nima Dorji
  • Content Provider
  • Forestry Officer
Department of Forests and Park Services
Samtse
BT
Tshering Wangchuk
  • Content Provider
  • Forestry Officer
Department of Forests and Park Services
Phuntsholing
Chhukha
BT
Bir Bdr. Rai
  • Content Provider
  • Forest Ranger
Department of Forests and Park Services
Dagana
Dagana
BT

Geographic Coverage

The area for the botanical enumeration and sampling of plants (including trees, herbs, shrubs) was conducted in an area of 3.15 hactares in the CNR campus. The area includes the Organic Agriculture Orchard, Gawaling boys hostel campus and the forested area connecting these two places.

Bounding Coordinates South West [27.498, 89.877], North East [27.501, 89.879]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2023-05-01 / 2023-05-30

Project Data

No Description available

Title CESP2024-006
Identifier CESP2024-006

The personnel involved in the project:

Phuentsho Phuentsho
  • Author

Sampling Methods

In the sampled grid, the outer quadrat (20m X 20m) established randomly for enumeration of trees while inner quadrat (2m x 2m) plot was established to enumerate shrubs, and ground vegetation (herbs) respectively (DoFPS, 2020). The ropes and wooden pegs were used to layout the sampling plots in the field. 2 plots (quadrat) for the complete grids and 1 plot for the incomplete grids was randomly selected inside a sample grid for sampling. From the total of 28 sampled grids, data from the 24 grids were collected and the remaining 4 grids were left out without enumeration as the area fell under built-up area (new Gawaling Hostel) and no vegetation growth was encountered. Multiple visits were made in the study area after the main data collection for incidental recording of the species which may have been missed.

Study Extent This checklist is from a small area within the campus of the College of Natural Resources in Bhutan

Method step description:

  1. Plants recorded within the sample plots were identified by their morphological and field characters in the field. For those species which could not be identified in the field, specimens were collected and Flora of Bhutan and online resources like iNaturalist, PlantNet and Google Lens were used to identify specimens using photos. Online databases were also accessed for proper identification and accessing the current valid name as of on 28-05-2023. The angiosperm families are arranged according to APG IV system of classification (The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, 2016). Gymnosperm families on the other hand are arranged according to Christenhusz, et al. (2011). The pteridophytes are arranged according to Smith, et al. (2006).

Additional Metadata

Introduction The College of Natural Resources is spread over 39.68 hectares on the eastern slope of Lobesa, Punakha with an elevation of 1242 meters above sea level. The area is mostly covered with thick Chir Pine (Pinus roxburghii Sarg.) forest and has a diverse plant species as well. The inventory of the plant species in the institution has not been properly recorded and thus provide us with the opportunity to record the plant species. An inventory provides a complete set of information about a given area to create a list of species, habitat, land uses, etc in the area. The inventory of plant species in the college campus provides complete information about the different plant species prevalent in the campus providing better knowledge of the diversity and this also could be used for educational and research purposes in the field. The plant inventory covered all trees, shrub and herb species in a study area of 3.15 hectare inside the campus. The plant inventory was carried out using different research tools by designing study areas and methods to be adopted for the collection of data. The method of systematic random sampling laid in the study area provided the complete diversity of the area ensuring that most of the species are recorded (Pavlik, 2016). The complete checklist of the plant species would be very useful in deciding land use and conservation of biodiversity.
Purpose Plants belonging to 60 families were recorded during the survey. Highest number of species were recorded from the family Asteraceae , followed by Fabaceae and Solanaceae in the third. The largest number of species recorded from the family Asteraceae. 
Alternative Identifiers 30b3651b-bdd5-48da-bef4-7b225dc3a772
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