Flora of Guntur City Andhra Pradesh

The Flora of Guntur City is the brain child of Professor P.R. Mohana Rao, whose association with the Professor Olov Hedberg at Uppsala University him to take up flora work which eventually culminated into a most valuable treatise. Although Uhl (1930) did maiden attempt on Flora of Guntur when he was working in Luthern Mission College, Guntur in the early part of last century, it was out dated because neither he followed any system of classification nor he provided keys for genera and species. Since then there has been a phenomenal change in landscape of Guntur city. Judging from senior author’s wide experience, a modern Flora is much needed containing identification keys and descriptions of plants available in Guntur and its surrounding environs. Both wild as well as introduced plants growing in cultivated fields, roadsides, railway tracks, parks, public gardens, private gardens, colleges, schools, guest houses, tobacco companies, ponds and puddles have been collected, recorded and about 411 species representing 78 families are described in the book. A short summary of diagnostic features and description is given under each family followed by a key to geners. Then a brief description is given of each species, with its local distribution, time of flowering and fruiting, local names, local uses, pollination etc. The families are arranged according to the Bentham & Hooker’s System of Classification of flowering plants (1862 1883).