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The present book provides comprehensive information for the identification of flowering plants of Telangana State, which is a prerequisite for sustainable management of these natural resources and for documentation of the plant diversity of India. K.N. Reddy and C. Sudhakar Reddy together made immense contributions to the Flora of Telangana State. The floweing plants of Telagana collected by earlier workers have been cited in other works.
The uniqueness of the present study lies in accomodation of recent nomenclatural changes in species, genera and families, which has brought out high diversity in generic and family levels. According to this study, the Flora of Telangana State comprises 1911 taxa of flowering plants distributed within 893 genera and 162 families. In addition, information of historical changes in forest cover, vegetation types, review of work done, endemic and red listed species, invasive alien species, wild relative of crops and economically important tree species have been provided. Maps of vegetation type and altitudinal zonation have been included in the book.
In order to obtain an insight into the relations of the flora of Telagana with the neighbouring floras, a comparative analysis of ten dominant families was made. An artificial key to the families has been provided according to Bentham and Hooker's classification with certain exceptions to contain recent changes. The genera within the family and species within the genus have been kept in alphabetical sequence. The keys and descriptions are important aspects of the work and hence special care has been taken based on the field observations and literature.
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