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Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh Flora of the Parasnath Wildlife Sanctuary Jharkhand by Ranjan Vinay
The book on “Flora of the Parasnath Wildlife Sanctuary Jharkhand” provides exhaustive information on plant wealth of the interesting topography and geographical position of the Parasnath hills. The book deals with taxonomic account of 586 taxa belonging to 367 genera under 102 families of angiosperms based on authors’ own collection, available plant materials in herbaria (CAL & LWG) and literature. Keys to various taxa (families, genera and species) have been provided for identification. Recent binomials with basionym (if any) and synonym are cited for each taxa followed by taxonomic description, phenology and collection number. Coloured photographs and line drawings for some plants are provided. The present study has resulted in the discovery of one new species and 138 taxa as new to the Parasnath hills.