\n\n\n \n Books on Indian Flora (Alphabatically arranged):<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n <\/div>\n * <\/font>A Pictorial Guide to The Plants of The Indian Subcontinent<\/span>: It is a small handy book and the photos are also good in most of the plates. The author gives the meaning of its name, uses etc. book published by Ramesh K Aima Price is Rs.1,495\/- and readily available by logging on to the website natrajbooks.com. The plants are arranged alphabetically, with two descriptions on the left side and pictures of each on the right side. The format followed is name, Etymology, common name, family, Description, Distribution and uses.Total 555 pages. Pg 496 to 527 consists of keys for the genus and species, followed by scientific names index and common names index and last is the glossary of technical terms. (Sanal Nair- 27\/3\/10 & Rashida Atthar- 1.5.10).<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n* Aaple Vriksh & Desi Vriksh by Dr S. D. Mahajan<\/font> – Dr S. D. Mahajan a reknowned botanist from Pune Maharashtra.is coming up with a book on Indian trees. This is in Marathi. (Dr. Satish Phadke)<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n* An Atlas of Major Flowering Trees in India<\/font>– second Edition- MSSwaminathan, FRS & SLKochhar<\/font>– Rs.950 [original price]. This a very detailed & informative book- good pictures. (Ranjini Kamath- 30.4.09) <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n* <\/font>A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India: H.G. Champion and S. K. Seth<\/span>; Government of India Press, 1968 (Reprinted 2005, Natraj Publishers, Dehradun). This is a classic and an excellent guide to the vegetation and biogeography of plant habitats in India.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n* Beautiful flowers of the Kashmir<\/font> by Fr. Ethebert Blatter.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n* <\/font>Beautiful trees & shrubs of Kolkata by R.K.Chakraverty & S.K.Jain<\/span>– published by Botanical Survey of India, Indian Botanical Garden, Howrah- Rs.128 (198 pages)- Very good book for Kolkata members although it is quite useful for others also. Quality of photographs is not upto the mark. However details about Kolkata are very good. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\nBotany of Bihar and Orissa<\/font> by H.H.Haines<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nA new coffee table book, “Celebration of Indian Trees” by Dr. Ashok Kothari, 2007<\/span> has been published by Marg under the aegis of Natural Society of Friends of the Trees. It is a large format book covering approx. 140 species with some full page photographs. The book is very expensive at Rs. 2700 discounted. <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nCommon Flowers of India by D.S.Pandey & N.P.Singh<\/span> by Publications division (Rs. 250) – highlights 150 common plants. I have not gone through the book, though it appears quite good with good quality pictures.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nIsaac Kehimkar’s book, *Common Indian Wild Flowers*<\/span>, BNHS, 2000. Price Rs. 375\/-. Highly recommended and can be carried in the field. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nConcise flowers of the Himalayas by Oleg Polunin & Adam Stainton<\/span> (Rs.450)- Oxford Publication- A very good book for identifying & knowing about the flowers of the Himalayas. It explains about 1002 species of Himalayan flowers with colours photographs & Drawings. <\/span><\/span> <\/font><\/font><\/li>\nDictionary of Economic plants in India<\/font>– Umrao Singh, A.M. Wadhwani, B.M. Joshi <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nEndemic plants of the Indian region- M.Ahmeddullah and M.P. Nayar<\/span>– Botanical survey of India- for further reading it is useful. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/li>\nField Guide to the common Trees of India- P V Bole & Yogini Vaghani<\/font>– small, useful book but illustrations could be misleading. (Ranjini Kamath- 30.4.09)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\nFlora of Barmati<\/font> by Rani Bhagat, Dr. V.B. Simpale & R.B.Deshmukh<\/font> have recently published a book “Flora of Barmati” in Jan 2009. The Prize of book is 1000\/-. There is 10% discount per copy. If parcel add extra charges of 100\/- towards postage. It contains 423 colored photographs with total 56 plates. If anybody want to purchase please convey to the author <\/font>Rani Bhagat<\/font>, Agharkar Research Institute, G.G.Agarkar Rd., Pune 4 Maharashtra India.<\/font><\/span><\/li>\nFlora of Haryana (Materials) by S. Kumar<\/font>, published from Dehradun. (Suresh Sharma- 23.4.09)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\nFlora of Rajasthan Desert by K.M. Bhandari <\/font><\/span><\/li>\nFlora of THE INDIAN DESERT by <\/font>M.M.Bhandri<\/font>. It is available at M.P.S.Repros, 39, BGKT Extension, New Pali Road, JODHPUR 342005, 0291-2430824, Cell – 9414130824<\/font> welltrad@sancharnet.in<\/a>, \/ welltrad@bsnl.in<\/a> (Mukesh Bhandari- 9.1.10)<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nFlowering Trees by M.S. Randhawa<\/span>– Nation Book Trust- Rs. 65\/- (208 pages)- explains 56 species with the help of plates & figures along with details about which species to be planted in Gardens, villages, Towns, Cities, Avenues, Highways etc. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nFlowers of the Western Himalayas<\/font> by Rupin Dang. <\/font><\/li>\nShrikant Ingalhalikar’s Flowers of Sahyadri<\/span>, 2001, Corolla Publications, Pune, (Ph. 020- 24351388) printed by Pragati Offset, Hyderabad. The flowers are restricted to the Western Ghats, specifically to Maharashtra. It can also be carried in your daypack.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nConcluding Part of <\/span>Shrikant Ingalhalikar’s Further Flowers of Sahyadri, 2007<\/span>– Field guide to additional 1200 flowers of North- Western Ghats of India, Price- Rs. 800. Though the field guide is titled as <\/span>Flowers of Sahyadri, it is useful for most plants of all the regions. Besides it also covers trees found in urban habitats. May be it is the first ever such publication. It has breath- taking photographs! Every species described has beautiful photograph.<\/span> The design, description, photos and the layout are par excellence! <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nFocus on sacred groves and ethnobotany- Prof.V.D.Vartak<\/span>– this book deals with conservation of trees in older days. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nForest<\/span> Flora of the Bombay Presidency and Sind\/ W.A. Talbot<\/span>. Reprint. First published: Poona, Government of Bombay, 1909. 1984, 2 v., 508, 574 p., 541 figs., $63. Reprint of The Flora Of The Presidency Of Bombay<\/span> 1903-1908 2 Vols. Set by T. Cooke-Publisher: Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 1983 (Reprint), Dehradun. <\/span>Flora of Presidency of Bombay – T. cooke, reprint 2006, has two volumes.<\/span> Vol I is Ranunculaceae to Rubiaceae and Vol II-Compositae to Gramineae. Dr. Almeida ‘s Flora of Mah. volumes<\/span> have added the missing plants in these volumes and also the new and changed names. <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nForest Flora of the Chakrata, Dehra Dun and Saharanpur Forest Divisions, United Provinces<\/span>; Upendranath Kanjilal & Basant Lal Gupta; Government of India Publications 1928 (Reprinted 200?, Natraj Publishers, Dehradun). Another classic, this is somewhat technical, but excellent for the field identification of plants in Northern India, and especially in the Terai region. Natraj Publishers have recently reprinted the book with some sparse illustrations. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>There is another book, which is in the same genre as Upendranath Kanjilal’s book, but on the trees of Southern India. As a very limited number of copies (1000) were printed, it may be difficult to find (I believe I have one of the last copies to be sold.). It is profusely illustrated and an excellent field guide. I hope that there are plans to produce more copies in the near future. <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nForest Flora of Srinagar and Plant of Neighbourhood-Gurcharan Singh & P. Kachroo<\/font>. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun and Periodical Expert Book Agency, Delhi.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nForest Trees of South India; S. G. Neginhal<\/span>, IFS (Retd.), Navbharath Press, Bangalore. 2004.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nFreaks and marvels of plants life- M.C.Cook<\/span>– antic book. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nHydrophytes and Marsh Plants of Mysore City-<\/font> V.Bhaskar and B.A. Razi (1973). Publisher: Prasaranga, University of Mysore, Mysore pp. 102 Price: Rs. 8=00<\/li>\nHortus Malabaricus and Socio-cultural Heritage of India<\/font><\/a>– by Prof. Manilal by The Hon. Vice Chancellor of Calicut Prof. Abdul Salam on 17th February 2012 at a function held at Botany Department, Calicut University. The book is published by IAAT and is now available for sale.p.328. Hard Bound. INR 700.00. ISBN: 81-901637-3-6<\/font> <\/li>\nIndian Trees- Dietrich Brandis<\/span>-1978- antic reference book. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nKnow your Grass Genera Through Hand Lens by Prof. SR Yadav Published by Shivaji University Kolhapur. Dr.S R Yadav edited this book and it is priced at Rs.500 per copy. (Balkar Arya & Muthu Karthick- 26.10.10)<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nKolhapur<\/span> flora, Corbett flora, Tadoba flora, Khandala flora<\/span> by Botanical Survey of india. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\nMaharashtra<\/span> flora- 4 volumes- Dr. M.R. Almeida<\/span>-Good reference book to get species account. It is not a field guide. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n |