New Vistas in Indian Flora (2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: 1. DNA Barcoding of Medicinal Plants/Saloni Malik, Sadhana Babbar and Shashi B. Babbar. 2. Evolution of leaf forms in the genus Indigofera L. (Papilionoideae, Leguminosae) based on morphological and molecular sequence data/Devender S. Meen, Mayank D. Dwivedi, Vibha Chauhan and Arun K. Pandey. 3. The agro-ecosystem engineers: Cyanobacteria and Azolla/Ashwani K Rai and Naveen K Sharma. 4. Certain common and interesting coccid blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria) from India/Richa Tandon, Rama Kant, Sarika Kesarwani and G.L. Tiwari. 5. Unicellular Fungal Spores from the Cenozoic Sediments of India/Ramesh K. Saxena. 6. Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi in Indian Sub-Continent/Harbans Kaur Kehri, Ifra Zoomi, Dheeraj Pandey and Ovaid Akhtar. 7. Diversity and Conservation of Aphyllophoraceous Fungi in Himalayan Forests/Deepa Mishra and J.R. Sharma. 8.  Diversity and Distribution of Lichens in Andhra Pradesh Including two New Records For India/Satish Mohabe, Gangadhar Pandava, Anjali Devi B, A. Madhusudhana Reddy and Sanjeeva Nayaka. 9. Bryofloral Diversity: Distribution and Conservation of Amphibian Members of Plant Kingdom in India/Subhajit Dutta, Subhasis Panda and Subhash C Mandal. 10. The Genus Ophioglossum L. in India: brief review on field work/Hit Kishore Goswami. 11. Ethnomedicinal uses of Pteridophytes for Treating Various Human Ailments in India/Priti Giri, Pratibha Kumari, Prabha Sharma and P.L. Uniyal. 12. An Analysis of Pteridophytic Flora of Jammu and Kashmir State/Brijesh Kumar, Pushpesh Joshi, Himanshu Dwivedi and Vineet Kumar Rawat. 13. Mycorrhizal Association in Pteridophytic Flora of Pachmarhi Hills of Central India: Occurrence, Ecological and Evolutionary Significance/Santosh Kumar Shukla, Sarvesh Kumar Singh, Pradeep Kumar Shukla, Nawal Kishore Dubey and Gopal Krishna Srivastava. 14. Gymnosperms of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India: An Overview/Lal Ji Singh, Gautam Anuj Ekka, Vivek C. P. and D. R. Misra. 15 Angiospermous Flora during Siwalik (Miocene) period in the Tanakpurarea, Uttarakhand and their Climatic and Phytogeographical implications/Sanjai Kumar Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Mahesh Prasad and Pawan Kumar Singh. 16. Diversity of Natural Dye Yielding Plant wealth of India/Nitisha Srivastava and Lal Ji Singh. 17. A Taxonomic Review and an Enumeration of Commelinaceae in India/Mayur D. Nandikar and Rajaram V. Gurav. 18 Distributional trends of Caprifoliaceae Juss. In India/Ambarish Mukherjee and Joydeep Acharya. 19. On Some Medicinal Plants Curing Orthopaedics Ailments/Saumya Mishra, Shruti Mishra, Sidharth Tiwari and D.R. Misra. 20. Vedic Plants of India and their Medicinal uses/Anil Kumar Dhiman and Purshotam Kaushik. 21. An Overview of Phytodiversity of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India/Lal Ji Singh, Vinay Ranjan, B. K. Sinha, Sanjay Mishra, Chandan Singh Purohit, Vivek C.P., M. Chennakesavulu Naik and Gautam Anuj Ekka. 22 Endemic Trees of South India/M.Y. Kamble and S. Kaliamoorthy. 

Vol. II: 23 Diversity of the genus Impatiens in the Anamudi-Anamalai endemic zone of the Southern Western Ghats region of Kerala/R. Jagadeesan, A. Gangaprasad and Sam P. Mathew. 24. Floristic Diversity of Odisha: An Overview/M.R. Mohanta and S.C. Sahu. 25. Flora of Sikkim- A Synoptic view/Debabrata Maity. 26 Alien Flora of Indian Himalayan Region: Taxonomic, Biogeographical and Ecological Assessment/Anzar A. Khuroo, Rameez Ahmad, Maroof Hamid, Ruquia Gulzar, Akhtar H. Malik and Irfan Rashid. 27. Weed Flora of Uttar Pradesh, India/R.B. Yadav, Ajay Kumar, S.K. Verma and Lal Ji Singh. 28. Diversity of Climbing Plants in Tropical Forest of Madhya Pradesh, India/R.L.S. Sikarwar and Arjun Prasad Tiwari. 29. An Outline of Angiospermic Diversity of Gujarat State, India/S.L. Meena, Sanjay Mishra, P. Hari Krishna and Vinod Maina. 30. Ethnomedicinal Plants of Assam, North-East India/Ajit Kumar Das. 31. Biodiversity of Some Medicinal Plants of Uttrakhand State/SidharthTiwari, Saumya Mishra, Shruti Mishra, Dharm Raj Misra and Udai Bhan Prajapati. 32. Vegetation and Floristic Analysis in Col. Sher Jung National Park, Sirmaur District, Himachal Pradesh/M.R. Debta and K. Ambrish. 33. Orchids of Southern India/S. Kaliamoorthy and M. Y. Kamble. 34. The Diversity of Grasses in Uttarakhand, India/Manish K. Kandwal. 35. Diversity and Conservation of Orchids in Maharashtra/Jeewan Singh Jalal. 36. Diversity Study of Grasses in Rajasthan Desert/C.S. Purohit. 37. Melissopalynological Flora of Uttar Pradesh, India/Vibhasa and Ajay Kumar. 38. Some Primitive and Rare Plant Species from Seijosa, Arunachal Pradesh with Special Emphasis on their Economic Importance and Conservation/Acharya Balkrishna, Anupam Srivastava, Bhasker Joshi, B. K. Shukla, Rama Shanakr, Shambhu Patel, Siddhartha Tiwari, Uday Bhan Prajapati and Rajesh Kumar Mishra. 39. Florestic Diversity of Eco-sensitive Zone of Baraila lake Salim Ali Jubba Sahni Bird Sanctuary, Vaishali district, Bihar/Kumar Avinash Bharati. 40. Status, Distribution and GIS Mapping of Threatened and Endemic Plants of Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary, Sikkim/C. S. Purohit and Lal Ji Singh. 41. Assessment of Floristic Diversity of Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve, India/L. Rasingam. 42. Floristic Composition, Social and Conservation Values of Some Sacred groves of Bankura district, West Bengal/Ram Kumar Bhakat, Atanu Nayak and Achintya Dey. 43. Conservation status of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Potential Wild Ornamentals of Western Himalayan Region/Sandeep Chauhan and Puja Shrama. 44. Grass Feeding Habits of Migratory Water birds at Asan Conservation Reserve, Dehradun, Uttarakhand/Manish K. Kandwal and M. Vijay. 45. Abiotic stress as depressive factor for plant growth/Shalini Singh and Meenakshee Pandey.

New Vistas in Indian Flora” is an attempt to amalgamate recent researches in interdisciplinary branches of botany carried out in India. The book is divided in two volumes (1 & 2) and contains 45 articles covering a wide range of topics related to all the major plant groups like algae, fungi, lichen, bryophyta, pteridophyta, gymnosperms, angiosperms and on molecular taxonomy.

Articles on diversity of algae to angiosperm, medicinal plants, endemic plants, rare plants, alien flora, taxonomic review of genus and family, plants used in natural dye, Vedic plants, and DNA bar coding, are included in the two volumes; these articles would provide baseline information on plant diversity for framing effective conservation strategies. Each article is very comprehensive in approach and will provide recent researches outcomes in the respective fields.

The book will enhance our knowledge on various aspects of plants including conservation and sustainable management of biological diversity. The present volumes will be an ineluctable reference book and beneficial to student, teacher and researcher in the field of Botany and would surely inspire the researchers, policymakers, plants lovers and the public at large and will help us in scientific awareness, conservation and sustainable management of biological diversity.