Plant Resources of Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu, India. 2012. 48 col. pls. XIV, 755 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Covers 1365 taxa of Angiosperms from from 1278 species, 18 subspeciesand 69 varieties coming under 713 genera, spread over 158 families.The families are arranged according to Bentham & Hooker's system ofclassification with a few modifications according to recent workerssuch as Hutchinson and Cronquist. All the naturally occurring taxa aredescribed with nomenclature, local names, descriptions, phenology,occurrence and global distribution. Notes on nomenclature, fieldobservations, population status, thread status, distribution andtrade and also local uses are provided wherever available. The bookincludes the rediscovery of a species and several new distributionalrecords including 1 species for India, 2 for peninsular India and8 taxa for Tamil Nadu. Details on vegetational pattern, topography,geology, climatology, flora of forest and non -forest areas and faunaof the district.