The present book is principally meant for the general reader who wants to recognise plants without being equipped with botanical Jargon and vocabulary. Kurnool district, often called "Gateway of Rayalaseema", enriched with highly varied angiosperm diversity due to wide range of vegetation types and undulated topography. Though this district lies in the heart of famine zone, the eastern corner of the district, called Nallamalais and western Yerramalais exhibit floral diversity of about 1065 species. Environmental education, and particularly the dissemination of the conservational message, requires general recognition and utilisation of plants even by non specialists. The usage of local vernacular names is specially meant for this. Families are arranged in the modified Bentham and Hooker sequence followed in the Kew and the Indian herbaria, especially in the national and provincial floras. Genera within the family and species within the genus are given in alphabetical order. Artificial keys (indented keys) are provided at each level of separation for easy identification. A comprehensive index gives the names of families, genera and species (correct names and synonyms) at the end.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R.R. Venkata Raju
Prof. R.R. Venkata Raju did his M.Sc. from Sri Krishnadevaraya University in 1981. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1986. He described about 10 new taxa belonging to Euphorbiaceae and Asteraceae. He guided 14 scholars for Ph.D. degree and 15 members for M.Phil. degree. He published 2 books and 80 research articles in national and international journals. He has served the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (IAAT) in the capacity of Secretary during 2000-2003. He has completed six major research projects funded by CSIR, DST, UGC, ICFRE and WWF and at present holding two major projects financed by UGC and DBT.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR T Pullaiah
Prof. T Pullah obtained his M.Sc. (1971) and Ph.D. degrees in Botany from Andhra University. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Moscow State University, Russia, during 1976-1978. He traveled widely in Europe and visited Universities and Botanic Gardens in about 16 countries. He joined Sri Krishnadevaraya University as Lecturer in 1979 and became Professor in 1993. He held several positions in the University as Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, Head, Department of Botany; Chairman, Board of Studies in Botany; Head, Department of Sericulture; Co-ordinator and Chairman, Board of Studies in Biotechnology; Principal, S K University College and Warden, S K, University Hostels. He has published 43 books, 238 research papers and 35 popular articles in Journals of repute. He is the Principal – Investigator of 20 major Research Projects totaling more than a Crore of Rupees funded by DBT, DST, CSIR, UGC, BSI, WWF, GCC, BARC etc. Under his guidance, 45 students obtained their Ph.D. degrees and 34 students their M.Phil. degrees. He is the recipient of Best Teacher Award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Prof. P Maheshwari Gold Medal of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxanomy. He served as the Vice President of the Indian Botanical Society and presently the Councilor of the same. He served as a member of Species Survival commission of International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).
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