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Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh Flora of Guntur City Andhra Pradesh by S M Khasim And Bibi Aasiya P R Mohana Rao
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Vegetation. 3. Resume of floristic works on Andhra Pradesh with reference to Guntur. 4. Employed methods in the study. 5. Plan of the flora. 6. Analysis of the flora. 7. Concluding remarks on the flora of Guntur. 8. A note on wayside/roadside trees of Guntur. 9. Artificial key to families. 10. Systematic enumeration. 11. Literature cited. 12. Glossary of botanical terms. Index. The flora of Guntur City is the brain child of Professor P.R. Mohana Rao, Whose association with the Professor Olov Hedberg at Uppsala University inspired him to take up flora work which eventually culminated into a most valuable treatise. Uhl (1930) did a maiden attempt on Flora of Guntur when he was working in Luthern Mission College, Guntur in the early part of last century, but the neither followed any system of classification nor he provided keys for genera and species since then there has been a phenomenal change in landscape of Guntur city. Judging from senior author’s wide experience, a modern flora is much needed containing identification keys and descriptions of plants available in Guntur and its surroundings. Both wild as well as introduced plants growing in cultivated fields, roadsides, railway tracks parks, public gardens, private gardens, colleges, schools, guest houses, tobacco companies, ponds and puddles were collected, recorded and about 411 species representing 78 families are described in the book. A short summary of diagnostic features and description is given under each family followed by a key to genera and followed by description of each species, with its local distribution, time of flowering and fruiting, local names, local uses, pollination etc. The families are arranged according to the Bentham and Hooker’s System of Classification of flowering plants (1862-1883). The authors strongly believe that the Flora of Guntur City, Andhra Pradesh,