M Sanjappa
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Contents: Acknowledgements. Contributors & Editors. Abbreviations of Languages. List of Illustrations. 1. Loranthaceae. 2. Viscaceae. 3. Santalaceae. 4. Balanophoraceae. 5. Buxaceae. 6. Euphorbiaceae. 7. Daphniphyllaceae. Index to Botanical name. Index to common names.
Flowering Plants of India Dicotyledons Vol. I is a catalogue of Indian Plants from Acanthaceae to Avicenniaceae covering 18 families 483 genera and 2509 species, 34 subspecies, 285 varieties and 10 formae. They are arranged alphabetically. Photographs of representative species from all families are arranged in 31 plates. For each species, after the correct name followed by basionym, wherever applicable, synonyms mentioned in major floras are also given along with ...
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 ...
India with over 45,000 species of flora and 75,000 species of fauna distributed in its two major biogeographic realms have 10 biogeographic zones and two biodiversity hotspot regions of the world, is justifiably recognized as one of the World's 12 magacentres of biodiversity. Such a richness of varied biomes from tropical wet evergreen forests to deserts and alpine vegetation to coastal systems understandably needed the establishment of a well organized ...
It is often assumed and truly so that a viable and practical option to achieve near completion of the flora of India is by giving a serious stress to revisions of certain major genera under different families. They are pretty small in number, between 50 and 80, and Strobilanthes of the Acanthaceae is one such genus under and represented by ca 150 species in the mountainous region of Peninsular India and the Himalayas of northeast and northwest India. ...