The Nalgonda District in Andhra Pradesh, India, has its own diversity of terrain, soils and climate expressions apart from the ingredients of its biodiversity and a part of it near Nagarjunasagar Dam falls under the realms of ‘Project tiger" programme. Anthropogenic factors galore, the district has been exposed to vagaries of temperature and rain fall, scarcity of water sources, influx of cement factories and cross-country laying of new highways and railways. The first part of the book includes introduction, previous work, topography and general features, general vegetation types, floristic analysis etc., the second part includes systematic enumeration. A total of 511 species belonging to 334 genera and 101 families have been enumerated. The families have been arranged according to "Bentham and Hooker’s" system with incorporation of recent changes. Under each family key to the genera, followed by the genus with its authority, key to the species and species enumeration is given. All the genera in a family and all the species in the genus are arranged in alphabetic order. All the keys are of the dichotomous indented type. The nomenclature is brought up-to-date. Species enumeration is with citation, brief description and phenological data. The contents of the book followed the conservation pattern. The book should be useful to the personnel of different walks of profession: teachers, researchers, foresters, tourists and town and landscape planners.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.V. Raghava Swamy
Dr. B.V. Raghava Swamy – obtained Ph.D. degree from Nagarjuna University, Narjunanagar in 1993 and was a Research Associate at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.N. Rao
Prof. P.N. Rao – (b. 1937) is now retired professor of Botany and a UGC Emeritus Fellow Awardeee and Principal Investigator of a UGC major research project on Cuscuta biodiversity. He has 38 years of teaching and research experience at Andhra University, Vishakapatnam till 1976 and later at Nagarjuna University, Narjunanagar. He is known for his interest in floristics, taxonomy and biosystematics.
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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