Md Sharif Hossain Sourav

Little published information exists about Eulophia obtusa, a showy and distinctive species previously recorded from North India and Nepal. It is here reported from Bangladesh for the first time. The population occurring in Bangladesh may represent a distinct colour form, with pure white instead of bright yellow sepals and petals as in previous reco...

Dendrobium angulatum Lindl. (Orchidaceae) is reported from Bangladesh after 198 years. A brief description, illustration and photographs, are provided.

Arenga westerhoutii and Livistona jenkinsiana, two new addition to the flora of Bangladesh of Arecaceae, is described with photographs and geographical distribution.

The genus Barringtonia Schott is represented by two species in Bangladesh : Barringtonia acutangula (L.) Gaertn. and Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Spreng. (Ahmed et al. 2009). During a trip to Saint Martin’s Island, the author found a flowering tree along the fallow land field near to water and the plant specimens with flower has been collected. Furth...

The population status and ecology of the Alexandrine Parakeet Psittacula eupatria are poorly known in Bangladesh. We studied a small population discovered in the centre of Dhaka city. Observations took place during 2013–2017, and secondary sources and unpublished reports were also consulted. All nesting activities observed in Dhaka city took place...

Five species of genus Amorphophallus (Araceae) are recorded from Bangladesh, namely Amorphophallus bulbifer (Roxb.) Bl., A. longituberosus (Engl.) Engl. & Gehrm., A. margaritifer (Roxb.) Kunth, A. napalensis (Wall.) Bogn. & Mayo, and A. paeoniifolius (Dennst.) Nicholson. Among of the five species, A. margaritifer was first collected from Dhaka in 1...

Abstract: Family Convulvulaceae consist of about 50 genera having 1500 species, mainly distributed in tropics and also in subtropical regions of the world. In Bangladesh, this family is represented by 15 genera and 55 species. The genus Ipomoea is represented by 24 species in Bangladesh (Ahmed et al. 2008). A twining climber with pinkish flowers wa...

Three species of francolin Francolinus have been recorded in Bangladesh, Black Francolinus francolinus, Swamp F. gularis and Grey F. pondicerianus, but only the first of these is considered to survive in the wild and there are few records (Siddiqui et al. 2008). Black Francolin is legally protected under the Bangladesh Wildlife Act (1974) 2012, and...

Based on system characteristsics, the ecosystems of Bangladesh can be classed mainly into i) Riverine and floodplains ecosystem, ii) Terrestrial Ecosystem, iii) Mangrove ecosystem, iv) Wetland ecosystem, v) Coastal-Marine ecosystem, vi) Barind Ecosystem, vii) Forest ecosystem, and viii) Urban ecosystem. However, effects of external factors on these...

Introduction The migratory Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura is found only in South Asia, where it breeds mainly in the plains and foothills of the Himalayas (to about 1,200 m), south to Maharashtra and east to Bangladesh, and winters in Sri Lanka and south India (to 1,700 m). The species status to the east of Sikkim and Bangladesh is poorly known and t...

Notes on a Lesser Adjutant breeding colony found in Thakurgaon district in northern Bangladesh in 2011.

This paper is based on information from three sources. BA with colleagues from the Center for Nature Resource Studies (CNRS) held consultations in a wide range of villages in Jamalgonj sub-district in 2001–2 with support from an OBC small grant. They identified nesting trees and held discussions with local people to understand recent trends in Pall...

VArAnus flAVesCens (Yellow Monitor): DISTRIBUTION AND REPRODUCTION. Varanus flavescens was first described in 1827 by Hardwicke and Gray as Monitor flavescens from its type locality, India. The current range for the species in southern Asia includes the floodplains of Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra rivers of Pakistan, Northern India, Nepal, Myanmar...