This book is the culmination of more than five years of intensive taxonomic studies on the malvaceous plants of southern peninsular India, covering Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. A lot of field and laboratory work have gone into it along with exhaustive coverage of literature. The anxiety that it might end up as a repetition of the revision of the family published as late as in 1988 has been belied. The treatise has broken new grounds and have ...
