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Kerala is the natural home of many of our crop plants & their wild relatives, besides a large number of medicinal & other economically important species which is shrinking rapidly leading to lose of native bio-diversity. Keeping this in mind a flouristic study of the Kerala Forests is the most urgent need of the day hence the author chose Nilambur on the spring board. The book of 'Flora of Nilambur' gives a wide range of information both an floursistic & ...
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 ...