Table Of ContentETHNOBOTANY OF INDIA
Volume 2
Western Ghats and West Coast of
Peninsular India
ETHNOBOTANY OF INDIA
Volume 2
Western Ghats and West Coast of
Peninsular India
Edited by
T. Pullaiah, PhD
K. V. Krishnamurthy, PhD
Bir Bahadur, PhD
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Title: Ethnobotany of India. Volume 1, Eastern Ghats and Deccan / editors: T. Pullaiah, K. V.
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Other titles: Eastern Ghats and Deccan
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Ethnobotany of India 5-volume series
Editors: T. Pullaiah, PhD, K. V. Krishnamurthy, PhD, and Bir Bahadur, PhD
Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Deccan
Volume 2: Western Ghats and West Coast of Peninsular India
Volume 3: North-East India and Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Volume 4: Western and Central Himalaya
Volume 5: Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India
ABOUT THE EDITORS
T. Pullaiah, PhD
Former Professor, Department of Botany, Sri Krishnadevaraya University,
Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
T. Pullaiah, PhD, is a former Professor at the Department of Botany at Sri
Krishnadevaraya University in Andhra Pradesh, India, where he has taught
for more than 35 years. He has held several positions at the university, includ-
ing Dean, Faculty of Biosciences, Head of the Department of Botany, Head
of the Department of Biotechnology, and Member, Academic Senate. He
was President of the Indian Botanical Society (2014), President of the Indian
Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (2013), and Fellow of the Andhra
Pradesh Akademi of Sciences. He was awarded the Panchanan Maheswari
Gold Medal, the Dr. G. Panigrahi Memorial Lecture Award of the Indian
Botanical Society, the Prof. Y. D. Tyagi Gold Medal of the Indian Association
for Angiosperm Taxonomy, and a Best Teacher Award from Government of
Andhra Pradesh. Under his guidance 53 students obtained their doctoral de-
grees. He has authored 45 books, edited 15 books, and published over 300
research papers, including reviews and book chapters. His books include
Flora of Eastern Ghats (4 volumes), Flora of Andhra Pradesh (5 volumes),
Flora of Telangana (3 volumes), Encyclopedia of World Medicinal Plants
(5 volumes), and Encyclopedia of Herbal Antioxidants (3 volumes). He was
also a member of Species Survival Commission of the International Union
for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Professor Pullaiah received his PhD
from Andhra University, India, attended Moscow State University, Russia,
and worked as postdoctoral Fellow during 1976-78.
K. V. Krishnamurthy, PhD
Former Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, Bharathidasan University,
Tiruchirappalli, Tamill Nadu, India
K. V. Krishnamurthy, PhD, is a former Professor and Head of Department,
Plant Sciences at Bharathidasan University in Tiruchirappalli, India, an ad-
junct faculty at the Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Bangalore
viii About the Editors
and is at present Consultant, Sami Labs Ltd, Bangalore. He obtained his PhD
degree from Madras University, India, and has taught many undergraduate,
postgraduate, MPhil, and PhD students. He has over 50 years of teaching
and research experience, and his major research areas include plant mor-
phology and morphogenesis, biodiversity, floristic and reproductive ecol-
ogy, and cytochemistry. He has published more than 185 research papers and
28 books, operated 16 major research projects funded by various agencies,
and guided 32 PhD and more than 50 MPhil scholars. His important books
include Methods in Cell Wall Cytochemistry (CRC Press, USA), Textbook
of Biodiversity (Science Publishers, USA), Bioresources of Eastern Ghats
(Bishen Singh and Mahendra Paul Singh, Dehra Dun, India), Plant Biology
and Biotechnology (2 volumes, Springer India, New Delhi) and From Flower
to Fruit (Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi). One of his important research
projects pertains to a detailed study of Shervaroys, which form a major hill
region in the southern Eastern Ghats, and seven of his PhD scholars have
done research work on various aspects of Eastern Ghats. He has won several
awards and honors that include the Hira Lal Chakravarthy Award (1984)
from the Indian Science Congress; Fulbright Visiting Professorship at the
University of Colorado, USA (1993); Best Environmental Scientist Award of
Tamil Nadu state (1998); the V. V. Sivarajan Award of the Indian Association
for Angiosperm Taxonomy (1998); and the Prof. V. Puri Award from the
Indian Botanical Society (2006). He is a fellow of the Linnaean Society,
London; National Academy of Sciences, India; and Indian Association of
Angiosperm Taxonomy.
Bir Bahadur, PhD
Former Professor, Department of Botany, Kakatiya University, Warangal,
Telangana, India
Bir Bahadur, PhD, was Chairman and Head of the Department, and Dean
of the Faculty of Science at Kakatiya University in Warangal, India, and
has also taught at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. During his long
academic career, he was honored with the Best Teacher Award by Andhra
Pradesh State Government for mentoring thousands of graduates and post-
graduate students, including 30 PhDs, most of whom went on to occupy
high positions at various universities and research organizations in India
and abroad. Dr. Bahadur has been the recipient of many awards and honors,
including the Vishwambhar Puri Medal from the Indian Botanical Society
About the Editors ix
for his research contributions in various aspects of plant Sciences. He has
published over 260 research papers and reviews and has authored or ed-
ited dozen books, including Plant Biology and Biotechnology and Jatropha,
Challenges for New Energy Crop, both published in two volumes each by
Springer Publishers. Dr. Bahadur is listed as an Eminent Botanist of India,
the Bharath Jyoti Award, New Delhi, for his sustained academic and research
career at New Delhi and elsewhere. Long active in his field, he was a mem-
ber of over dozen professional bodies in India and abroad, including Fellow
of the Linnean Society (London); Chartered Biologist Fellow of the Institute
of Biology (London); Member of the New York Academy of Sciences; and
a Royal Society Bursar. He was also honored with an Honorary Fellowship
of Birmingham University (UK). Presently, he is an Independent Director of
Sri Biotech Laboratories India Ltd., Hyderabad, India.
