From the foreword: "The present work on the Flora of Nallamalais in Andhra Pradesh of peninsular India is an underexplored region which has a number of species new to science and species under vulnerable and threatened categories. This is also one of the centres of endemism.

There are also quite a good number of economic species like Dendrocalamus strictus becoming scarce due to excessive exploitation of the species. The region is vegetatively very rich, having dry lands and moist regions. There are 743 taxa of angiosperms under 109 families and 419 genera.

This rich composition of floristic components in the present work in 2 volumes from the Nallamalai forests bordering dry evergreen pockets, deciduous species, scrubs can be of great help to Botanists and Environmentalists in studying the species of this region. This inventory would highlight the need for the conservation of indigenous and endemic species".

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