Flora of the Pin Valley National Park, Himachal Pradesh. 2009. figs. maps. col. pls. VIII, 296 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

The present publication on the flora of Pin Valley National Park is anoutcome of an ongoing programme of survey and documentation of plantdiversity of fragile ecosystems and protected areas of the country, by the Botanical Survey of India. Conservation of the fragile ecosystemof North-West Himalaya has become a matter of serious concern since theopening of trans-Himalayan region, where these cold deserts occur, totourism and related developmental activities. Any disturbance in the biotic and abiotic components of this unique ecosystem is bound to causesevere ecological imbalance. The book deals with 513 taxa, belonging to243 genera under 64 families of Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, with a number of novelities for the Indian flora. The study also documents ca. 200 medicinal plants used by localinhabitants.