K.M. Matthew
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This Supplement with 273 plates completes the illustrations on the Flora of the Palni hills. The aggregate of 1,223 plates (double the number of the 611 plates in Fyson’s Flora of the South Indian hill stations) represents 1,171 species from 660 genera belonging to 152 Families. Two special features are the use of computer techniques, and the Cumulative Index to scientific names, incorporating those of Illustrations (1996), with the exotic taxa ...
This 3-part text of the Flora of the Palni hills (c. 2,500 species) completes the author's efforts for quarter of a century (1976-1999) at achieving a critical, illustrated Flora of Tamilnadu State, in two phases. This is the second phase: the montane counterpart of phase one that covered the lowlands. The Palni hills, part of the western ghats of India and one among the 25 biodiversity hotspots of the planet, are a marker zone: changes in plant population ...
This volume of 950 plates is the first of the 4-parts Flora of the Palni Hills due to be completed in 1997 as the montane counterpart of the author’s Flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic that covered a representative sector of the Tamilnadu plains and the southern hill ranges of the Eastern Ghats falling within Tamilnadu. That plant illustrations are the users’ top priority became clearer as the publication of the previous series ...