Return to Floras of India CatalogueFlora of Yavatmal District, Maharashtra/S. Karthikeyan and Anand Kumar. Calcutta, Botanical Survey of India, 1993, xxxii, 344 p., line drawings, $62.
Contents: Introduction. Systematic treatment. Selected bibliography. Index to botanical names. Index to Marathi names.
From the foreword: "The district of Yavatmal is situated in Maharashtra and is part of the region popularly called as Vidharba. This region includes other districts like, Akola, Amaravati, Bhandara, Buldana, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Nagpur and Wardha. This region as a whole lacks a proper floristic account except for account of forests of Berar (of which Yavatmal is a part) by Witt (1908). Keeping this in view, the Botanical Survey of India organised intensive exploration to study the flora of this area. This has resulted in the publication of floristic accounts of Bhandara, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli including the publication of flora of Akola district by the Botanical Survey of India.
"The present work on the flora of Yavatmal is published as a part of our flora of India series III. The total forest area in this district is about 23%. The natural forests are found to occur almost throughout the district intermingled with teak plantations. The pure patches of teak forests are luxuriant on the banks of river Penganga in Kharbi range. In all, there are about 579 taxa of angiosperms under 365 genera and 98 families. The district is rich in economically important species, which yield fibre, essential oils, dyes, tannins, etc. apart from a number of timber yielding plants. The flora also includes about 126 locally used medicinal herbs.
"About 12 species have been recorded for the first time from Yavatmal district for Maharashtra state."