Murshidabad district of West Bengal is primarily agricultural with rice, jute, wheat, oilseeds and potato as important field crops and fruit trees like mango, banana, guava, jackfruit and litchi being very important part of horticulture. This pattern is evident in Saidabad block, which lies within this district, with homestead gardens and fields of crops harboring a mixture of a wide range of economically valuable plant species from annual cereals to perennial fruit trees. This paper provides taxonomy of selected economically important plants of block Saidabad, Mangifera indica L. (mango), Psidium guajava L. (guava), Musa × paradisiaca L. (banana/plantain), Litchi chinensis Sonn. Oryza sativa L. and (litchi). (rice) combination of normal morphological description and the information of regional cropping. The taxonomic hierarchy, the diagnostic morphology and the economic roles of these species are presented in tabular form to facilitate field identification, teaching and, at the block level, preliminary diversity assessment.