The book on "Flora of Haryana (Materials)" deals with the taxonomic account of 1062 wild plant taxa falling under 583 genera representing 163 plant families based on author’s own collections and available plant material in herbaria (BSD & DD) and literature. The book includes chapters on complete vegetation account, forest types, floristic diversity and dominant plant families/genera in Haryana, monotypics, rare and endangered taxa and their conservation besides data on individual plant taxa showing current nomenclature (including basionym, synonyms and local names), flowering and fruiting time and suitable notes on economic uses and other aspects wherever essential. The text is enriched with 14 photographs and 84 illustrations of important plant taxa representing various plant families. An appendix on economic important plant species with various uses is also provided in tabular form in the end of the text. The cultivated species have also being included in alphabetical manner in the end of respective families.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S. Kumar
Dr. S. Kumar (born on July 25th, 1954) is working as a Senior Scientist in Botanical Survey of India Dehradun. He has been actively engaged in research in plant taxonomy, floristics and biodiversity conservation. He has contributed ca 100 research papers and popular scientific articles in reputed national and international journals and magazines in English and Hindi. He has botanically explored many regions in Jammy & Kashmir, Sikkim and Haryana and has contributed significantly in Flora of Jammu & Kashmir, Flora of Sikkim and Flora of Haryana. He is co-author of the book on "Flora Indicae Enumeratio: Asteraceae" and contributed in Books on Flora of India Vol. 1 (Berberidaceae) Vol. 13 (Asteraceae) and Vol 22 (Fagaceae) and Flora of Sikkim Vol. 1 He has recently published the books on FFlora of Haryana (Materials), Plant Diversity Along River Ganga and Zingiberaceae of Sikkim. His forthcoming publications include Grasses of Sikkim. Dr. Kumar is a Fellow and Life member of several reputed scientific societies and has chaired sessions in various conferences and symposia.
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