identify the bangladeshi plants

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MD SOHEL RANAPost Graduate StudentSchool of ForestryHenan Agricultural University (HAU)Zhengzhou, Henan, CHINA.

January 1, 2017

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Types of Forest in Bangladesh

There are mainly 6 types of Forest in Bangladesh

Tropical evergreen and semi evergreen forests (Hill Forest) Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest (Sal Forest) Natural Mangrove Forest (Sundarban) Coastal Afforestation Swamp Forest Village Forest

Tropical evergreen and semi evergreen forests (Hill Forest)

Extended over Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Sylhet district.

Total area of 6,70,000 hectare which is 4.54% of total landmass of the country and 44% of national forest land.

The Hill forests are abundant with numerous plant as well as animal species.


Garjan (Dipterocarpus spp.) Chapalish (Artocarpus chaplasha)

Some important flora are:

Telsur (Hopea odorata) Tali (Palaquium polyanthrum)



Kamdeb (Callophyllum polyanthum) Uriam (Mangifera sylvatica)



Jarul (Legarstromia speciosa) Civit (Swintonia floribunda)



Toon (Cedrela toona) Bandorhola (Duabanga grandiflora)



This forest is brought under plantation program since 1871. At present, plantation activities are being conducted under development projects.Some valuable plantation species are

Teak (Tectona grandis) Gamar (Gmelina arborea)

Jarul (Legarstromia speciosa) Koroi (Albizzia spp)



Chapalish (Artocarpus chaplasha) Mehogani (Swietenia spp)



Chikrassi (Chikrassia tabularis) Pynkado (Xylia dolabriformis)



Kadam (Anthocephalus cadamba) Telsur (Hopea odorata)



Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest (Sal Forest)

Plain land Sal forests are Tropical Moist Deciduous type of forests exists in most of the lowlands and floodplains in the central and western parts of the country.

This forest has an area about 1,20,000 hectare which is 0.81% of the country and 7.5% of the state forest land.

This forest is intermingled with the neighboring settlements and fragmented into smaller patches.

Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest (Sal Forest)Shorearobusta is the main species there with other associates

Albizzia procera Dillenia pentagyna

Cassia fistula Terminalia belerica


Terminalia chebula Bauhinia acuminata



Shorearobusta is the main species there with other associates

Lagerstroemia speciosa Syzygium spp.

Plantations of first growing species such as

Acacia auriculiformis


Acacia mangium

Eucalyptus camaldulensis Medicinal plants also conducted

under different development project of Forest Department in the forest.


Natural Mangrove Forest (Sundarban) The Sundarban is a unique and largest contiguous natural mangrove forest

in the world.

It is situated in the southern part of the south-western region of Bangladesh.

It has an area about 6,01,700 hectare which is 4.13% of the country and 38.12% of the state forest land.

Sundri (Heritiera fomes) is the characteristic species of the freshwater zone.

The forest of the moderately saltwater zone is mixture of Gewa (Excoecaria agallocha)

Natural Mangrove Forest (Sundarban)

Goran (Ceriops decandra) Passur (Xylocarpus mekongensis)

Natural Mangrove Forest (Sundarban)

Dhandal (Xylocarpus granatum).

Natural Mangrove Forest (Sundarban)= 》 Sundarban harbours 334 species of trees, shrubs and epiphytes and 269 species of wild animals.

= 》 World renowned Royal Bengal Tiger is the magnificent animal of Sundarban.

= 》 This forest has been an important source of timber, fuel wood, pulpwood and many non-timber forest products like, thatching materials, honey, wax and fish.

= 》 According to an Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) survey, 500,000 to 600,000 people depend directly on the Sundarban for their livelihood.

• Plantations along the shore land of coastal districts of Bangladesh started in 1961-62 fiscal year with the objectives of protecting lives and properties from natural calamities such as cyclones and tidal bores and of stabilizing the newly accreted lands.

• This initiative got momentum from 1980-81 with the aid of development partners and afforestation programs are extended over foreshore islands, embankments and along the open coasts.

Coastal Afforestation

Sonneratia apetala Avicennia officinalis

Coastal AfforestationApetala and Avicennia officinalis are the main species of the Coastal plantation.

Since 1962 to 2012-2013, 1,96,000 hectare of mangrove plantations have been raised under a number of coastal afforestation projects.

The Swamp forest inundated with freshwater, either permanently or seasonally.

It is located in the north-eastern part mainly in Sylhet and Sunamganj district of Bangladesh.

This forest covers an area about 23,000 hectares which is representing 1.44% of country's forest land and 0.16% of the country.

Swamp Forest

Hijal (Barringtonia acutangula)

Koroch (Pongamia pinnata)

Swamp ForestMain species of the Swamp Forest

In Bangladesh, 100% of the villages are individually owned.

In 1981, a village forest inventory was conducted (Hammermaster1981).

After a long time this forest was assessed during the National Forest and Tree Resources assessment in 2005-07.

Village Forest

• Cocos nucifera • Samanea saman

Village ForestFour most common species

• Mangifera indica • Areca catechu

Village ForestFour most common species

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