Urban Flora of Varanasi

About this book

Urban Flora of Varanasi describes 710 higher plant species belonging to 454 genera and 129 families of angiosperms found in Varanasi, a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. An effort has been made to provide detailed information on the plants of the regions with reference to their salient features and local uses. Colour photographs of selected plants have been provided at the end of the book. An index to botanical and vernacular names of plants of medicinal importance is also included.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

1. Methodology and presentation of the present account
2. Vegetation of aquatic and marshy habitat
3. Free-floating hydrophytes
4. Attached submerged hydrophytes
5. Attached hydrophytes with free-floating leaves
6. Wet- land hydrophytes
7. Seasonal vegetation
8. Rainy season plants
9. Winter season plants
10. Summer season plants
11. Weeds along roadsides
12. Hedge plants
13. Weeds of cultivated fields
14. Rainy season weeds
15. Winter season weeds
16. Climbers and twiners
17. Roadside trees
18. Crop plants
19. Medicinal plants
20. Wall flora. Systematic Description
21. Dicotyledons
22. Polypetalae
23. Gamopetalae
24. Monochlamydeae
25. Monocotyledons
26. Photographs of selected plants

Index to botanical and vernacular names of the plants
Index to plants of medicinal importance
Selected bibliography

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