Flora of the Kshmir Himalaya: Sind Valley. Volume 1. 2025.. XIV, 606 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

This compendium presents a comprehensive and authoritative account of the seed plant diversity of the Sind Valley in the Kashmir Himalaya—a botanically rich corridor that links the temperate region of Kashmir with the cold desert of in the Kashmir Himalaya-a botanically rich corridor that links the temperate region of Kashmir with the cold desert of Zanskar in Ladakh, and has historically served as a gateway to Central Asia and the Silk Route. Drawing upon over four decades of dedicated field exploration, meticulous plant collection, extensive herbarium studies, and rigorous scrutiny of global taxonomic literature, this work provides state-of-the-art taxonomic information on seed plants on seed plants from one of the most ecologically and phyto geographically significant regions of the Himalayan biodiversity hotspot.

Organized into seven chapters across two volumes, the Flora documents 1,390 taxa (1,380 species and 10 infra-specific taxa), representing 575 genera and 116 families in 42 orders, including both gymnosperms and angiosperms.. Each taxon is accompanied by accurate descriptions, identification keys, and notes on distribution and ecology.

This is the fist Flora from the Western Himalaya (and possibly from India) to be organized according to the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV (APG IV, 2016) classification system, making it fully aligned with the most contemporary Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV (APG IV, 2016) classification system,.