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The dataset on oil yielding plants was structured in a simplistic manner, with fields for scientific name, common/vernacular names, habit and source/uses of the oil. The nomenclature has been updated to the extent possible. However, the names by which the plants are more popularly known have been kept in parenthesis. The author citation follows Brummitt and Powell (1992). The family delimitation broadly follows Cronquist's System of Classification, but later ...
The writing of this book stems from the authors longstanding interest in endemism, phytogeography and plant conservation. The authors have worked on the endemic plants of India and a series of papers on this subject have been published as noted in the list of references. After Chatterjee's (1940) publication of the endemic flora of India, the studies on endemism did not receive appropriate attention. Since then, due to major taxonomic revisions and new ...