Botanical Survey of India
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The Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, more popularly known as the Labyrinth Islands, is renowned for its luxuriant coastal, mangrove, tropical evergreen forests, and marine vegetation. The book Angiosperm Diversity of Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, South Andaman, India deals with different species of flowering plants comprising of 762 species of dicotyledons and 248 species of monocotyledons with 15 illustrations and 144 photographs. The book also ...
Contents: Indian Botanic Gardens in Plant conservation: an overview/S.S. Dash, M. Ahmedullah and P. Singh. 1. The changing landscape of Calcutta Botanic Garden/Adrian Thomas. 2. From surgeon to botanist: the career of Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854)/Martin Krieger. 3. Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden: Howrah/Vinay Ranjan, Suman Halder and P. Venu. 4. Contribution of AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah in Germplasm Conservation/H S Mahapatra, ...
About 25% of the vascular plants of India are found no where else or otherwise endemic to India. These living natural treasures are important part of our heritage. The book ‘Endemic Vascular Plants of India’ enumerates 4381 taxa (4303 Angiosperms, 12 Gymnosperms and 66 Pteridophytes) belonging to 1007 genera and 176 families. A total of 58 genera have been identified as endemic to India. Distributional maps for all the 58 endemic genera and their ...
From the preface: Biodiversity and its conservation strategies are the apex concern of scientists in recent decades. Thus, Botanical Survey of India has initiated to prepare the inventory of Indian algae at national level. Volumes 1 and 2 in this series has been published in 2012. The present book “Algae of India: a checklist, volume-3, deals with 212 taxa belonging to 46 genera, 19 families of Chlorophyta, 6 taxa belonging to 1 genus, 1 family of ...
From the preface: The inventorisation and documentation of indigenous flora is an essential prerequisite for formulating effective conservation strategies. Keeping this in view, the Department of Forests, Haryana has approached Botanical Survey of India to prepare a database of plant wealth occurring in Sultanpur National Park, also one of the important Bird sanctuaries in northern part of India located in Gurgaon. The Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional ...
Contents: Vol. II: 1. Leguminosae. 2. Rosaceae. 3. Saxifragaceae. 4. Vahliaceae. 5. Parnassiaceae. 6. Hydrangeaceae. 7. Grossulariaceae. 8. Crassulaceae. 9. Droseraceae. 10. Hamamelidaceae. 11. Haloragaceae. 12. Callitrichaceae. 13. Rhizophoraceae. 14. Combretaceae. 15. Myrtaceae. 16. Lecythidaceae. 17. Melastomataceae. 18. Lythraceae. 19. Sonneratiaceae. 20. Punicaceae. 21. Onagraceae. 22. Trapaceae. 23. Turneraceae. 24. Passifloraceae. 25. Caricaceae. 26. ...
According to Almond 1993, the Botanic Garden is an ever changing museum of living plants. Chakravarthy and Mukhopadhyay 1990 described Btoanic Garden as a living repository or refugia of plants arranged and maintained on some scientific basis and where the collections are usually labeled or marked for identification. Heywood 1983 of the view that the Botanic Gardens and arboretum are at best represent the last resort for the preservation and maintenance of rare ...
This checklist contains exhaustive information on cyanoprokaryota pertaining to 5 orders 18 families 90 genera 939 species, 207 varieties and 86 forms along with their details including nomenclature and distribution. In totality genus Oscillatoria has maximum number of species followed by Lyngbya Phormidium Anabaena, Scytonema, Calothrix and Nostoc. These genera belong to order Nostocales and family Oscillatoriaceae, Nostocaceae, Scytonemataceae and ...
From the foreword: India, being a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity has developed a network of 102 National Parks, 515 Wildlife Sanctuaries and 18 Biosphere Reserves covering about 5% of its total land area. Sri Venkateswara National Park (SVNP) located in one of the microcentres of endemism (Tirupati-Cuddapah-Nallamalais) of the Eastern Ghats is represented by many flagship species such as Boswellia ovalifoliolata, Cycas beddomei, pterocarpus ...
The present volume provides taxonomic account of this interesting group based on authors own field observations and supplemented with the study of numerous types and other authentic specimens. It gives a historical and morphological account of the group and provides exhaustive taxonomic account of 188 genera and 681 species.
Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Macro and micromorphological characters. 3. Key to families. 4. Auriscalpiaceae. 5. Bankeraceae. 6. ...
First comprehensive account of the Flora of Rajiv Gandhi National Park and forms a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve located in the Western Ghats, which is one of the Biodiversity hotspots and recently declared as natural world heritage site by UNESCO. Systematic account of 1339 species, 16 subspecies and 31 varieties belonging to 757 genera under 152 families of Angiosperms, besides 30 species of Pteridophytes and 3 species of Gymnosperms have also been treated. ...
Contents: Acknowledgements. Contributors & Editors. Abbreviations of Languages. List of Illustrations. 1. Loranthaceae. 2. Viscaceae. 3. Santalaceae. 4. Balanophoraceae. 5. Buxaceae. 6. Euphorbiaceae. 7. Daphniphyllaceae. Index to Botanical name. Index to common names.
Flora of Gangotri National Park provides a detailed floristic account of 982 taxa of Pteridophytes, , Gymnosperms and Angiosperms with identification keys based on easily observable field characters and detailed notes on taxonomy, status, uses and etymology of genus and species names of phanerogams. The descriptions are supported by over 1000 color photographs and 31 plates of line-drawing. The book follows user-friendly format with ‘Know-at-Glance’ ...
The present work includes about 4500 references covering the following aspects: papers on taxonomy, external morphology, ecology, phytogeography, utilization, cytology, anatomy, embryology, morphology and palynology, having discussion or bearing on taxonomy and phylogeny, foreign works on those genera which are represented by some species in India as such works are very useful during revisionary works particularly for drawing up keys, for locating types and for ...
Epiphyllous Liverworts of Eastern Himalaya provides a comprehensive taxonomic account of 89 taxa of liverworts belonging to orders Metzgeriales , Porellales and Jungermanniales that colonize the leaf surface of vascular plants in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Darjeeling subdivision of West Bengal. Identification keys at different taxonomic hierarchy have been provided and each species, or the infraspecific taxon, is immaculately illustrated with ...
