         !"#$! 41               ! "  #$  %  $! # & 1. Department of Environmental Sciences, university of Pune, Maharashtra, India- 411007 2. Department of Geology & Geophysics university of Kashmir,Hazratbal, India-190006 3. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Slapur, Maharashtara - 413255 !’ Aquatic Macrophytic species were studied in three lakes of Jhansi, Bundelkhand region namely Burwa sagar, Atyatal, Laxmital (24 o 11´ and 25 o 57´ N latitude and 78 o 10´ and 79 o 25´ longitude). The present investigation was undertaken in June 2006, deals with distribution characters of macrophytes in the studied wetland ecosystems. Overall 10 species belonging to 9 families were recorded from the lakes. Atyatal was having maximum number of 9 species followed by 5 species in Laxmital and three in Barwasagar. The frequency values evaluated for various species were: 0.84 for Eichhornia crassipes; 0.72 for Ipomea aquatica; 0.53 for Elatina triandra; 0.26 for Potamogeton pectinatus and 0.28 Amaranthus virdis. The maximum values for density were recorded for Eichhornia crassipes (0.47), Ipomea aquatica (0.47), and Potamogeton pectinatus (0.47) all from Atyatal whilst mimimum density values were recorded for Potamogeton pectinatus (0.05) from Barwasagar .The maximum contribution to IVI (Importance Value Index) was recorded from Burwasagar for the species like Ipomea aquatica (111.96), Eichornia crassipes (99.56) and lowest values were recorded from Atyatal for the Species like Parthenium hystrophorus (21.96) and Phalaris arundinaceae (25.02). All the studied lakes were having greater coverage of emergent macrophytes indicating that lakes are evolving at rapid pace, owing to