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According to Almond 1993, the Botanic Garden is an ever changing museum of living plants. Chakravarthy and Mukhopadhyay 1990 described Btoanic Garden as a living repository or refugia of plants arranged and maintained on some scientific basis and where the collections are usually labeled or marked for identification. Heywood 1983 of the view that the Botanic Gardens and arboretum are at best represent the last resort for the preservation and maintenance of rare ...
Through well-planned seasonal exploration trips, most of the grasses previously recorded for the area together with a large number of additions, including several new discoveries, new, rare or endemic records, etc. have been collected and documented. This first step towards the study on the grasses of Kerala State, yielded about 296 species distributed in 103 genera, which consists of about 26 taxa new to science (2 new genera and 26 new species). In addition to ...