Flowering Plants of Sholas and Grasslands of the Nilgiris is a compendium that provides the basic information about the sholas and all known flowering plants occuring in sholas and grasslands. It is a total collection of 641 taxa including 573 species, 16 subspecies, 51 varieties under 366 genera and 112 familites. They are arranged in Family wise alphabetically. Photographs of representative species are arranged in 70 Plates. For each species, after the correct name followed by basionym wherever needed, synonyms mentioned in major floras are also given along with distribution and other details.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.S. Udayan
Dr. P.S. Udayan is presently working as an Assistant Professor of Botany in Sree Krishna College, Guruvayur, Thrissur, Kerala. His specialization in the field of Taxonomy of Flowering plants. He is guiding several Ph.D, scholars in Calicut and Kannur Universities. He has discovered and published a few new species of Flowering Plants.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. Anandalakshmi
Dr. R. Anandalakshmi is working as Scientist and Head of the Seed Technology Division at the Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore. She has rich experience of 13 years in tge field of Seed Science and Technology and has been in studies on seed biology of shola species and established shola restoration trials.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.P. Subramani
Dr. S.P. Subramani is a botanist and presently working as in-charge of Fischer Herbarium (FRC), in IFGTB, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. His fields of specialisation include Taconomy of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms, Medicinal plants, Plants Biodiversity Conservation Ecology and Ethnobotany. Deserts and has published more than 50 research papers in reputed journals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR V Singh
V. Singh, born on 15th August, 1947 obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Botany from the University of Meerut (U.P.) during the year 1967 and 1974 respectively, with specialization in Taxonomy. He is devoted to the study of Indian biodiversity right from the date of completion of post graduation and in thirty nine years of his research career he has published books like : 3-volumed Flora of Rajasthan, Flora of Banswara district, Ethnobotany of Rajasthan, Asteraceae of Sikkim, Ethnobotany and Medicinal Plants of India and Nepal (ed.) Indian Folk medicines and other products (ed.) which have got worldwide recognition. He is also recognized for the monographs on Indian Zygophyllaceae, Lamiaceae (the genus Leucas R.Br.), Caesalpiniaceae (subtribe Cassiinae) and Ebenaceae (the genus Diospyros L.). He has worked on different aspects of Indian flora viz. taxonomy, ecology, phytosociology, ethnobotany, medicinal botany, conservation etc. and has about 100 research papers in his credit. His recent contribution on the Biodiversity of Desert National Park hasfound wide recognition in the field of conservation and management of protected areas.
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