Red Data Book of Indian Plants -Volume I By Pallava Bagla

M.P. Nayar and A.R.K. Sastry Botanical Survey of India IRs 160

The usefulness of this much-needed book on plants of India crosses international frontiers. The format is taken from the IUCN Red Data books. The first volume lists 230 rare, vulnerable and endangered categories, encompassing 52 families of plants, both flowering and non-flowering, but mainly from among angiosperms. Most of the material for the book was provided by scientists from the Botanical Survey of India.