The first and the second volumes of the Red Data Book on Indian plants were published by the Botanical Survey of India in the years 1987 and 1988 and include 619 data sheets. The present volume deals with 195 threatened taxa of Indian flora. As in the Vols. 1 & 2, a number of line drawings (placed nearest to corresponding data sheets) and eight colour plates have been included here. Of these, data sheets on Cymbidium tigrinum Vol. 2, p. 168), Cymbidium hookerianum (Vol. 1, p. 241)and Paphiopedilum Villosum (Vol. 1, p. 272) have already appeared. A combined index to the species dealt in the three volumes published so far is presented at the end.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A.R.K. Sastry
A.R.K Sastri Joined Botanical Survey of India (BSI) in the Western Circle, Pune in 1961; worked in the Eastern Circle, BSI, Shillong; BSI Headquarters in different posts of project coordinator of US Fish & Wildlife funded BSI project on Endangered Species of Flora, and retired as Joint director. Worked as Director, Biodiversity programmes in the WWf-India, New Delhi. Published about 15 books and 75 research papers. Visited several US Botanical Institutions, Kew & Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. First recipient of Distinguished Scientist Award (Vishisht Vaignyanik Purashkar) from the Ministry of Environment & Forest., New Delhi in 1993; was the member of the IUCN Threatened plants committee for the Indian subcontinents. He is a Member of Research Council, Tropical Botanical Research Institute, Palode under the Kerala State Council for Sci., Tech., & Environment, Tiruvananthapuram.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M P Nayar
Dr. M.P. Nayar, Botanical Survey of India received M.Sc. degree from the University of Kerala (1955) with a First Class and First Rank and Ph.D. from the University of London (1966). He worked as Botanist at Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K. from 1961-1967. He visited several Herbaria and Gardesn inj Europe during 1961-1967. He monographed the family Melastomataceae for South East Asia. He is the author of five books and a book on "The Names of Flowering Plants" is under publication. He has about 150 original scientific papers to his credit and he described about 110 new species in the above-mentioned publications. He represented the Department of Environment as the leader of the Indian Team on Plant Working Group for the Convention of International Trade on Endangered Species in Fabruary 1984 at Tuscon, U.S.A. He is also working as Consultant and Chairman, Indian Subcontinent Plant Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission of IUCN.
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