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An Outline of the Revision of Indian Anacardiaceae


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The paper is an outline of revision of Indian Anacardiaceae which embraces 23 genera and 59 species. It deals with the historical review and the phylogcny of the family. Cytological, anatomical, palynological characters and economic uses of some members of the family have also been given. An enumeration of all the Indian taxa with their current nomenclatures and distribution has also been appended. The 61 taxa listed in this work include one new species of choerospondias Built. & Hill and a new variety of Nothopegia heyneana (Hook, f.) Gamble. A list of threatened species on the basis of herbaria records has also been included.
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S. K. Mukherjee
College of Agriculture, Calcutta University, India
Dali Chandra
College of Agriculture, Calcutta University, India

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The paper is an outline of revision of Indian Anacardiaceae which embraces 23 genera and 59 species. It deals with the historical review and the phylogcny of the family. Cytological, anatomical, palynological characters and economic uses of some members of the family have also been given. An enumeration of all the Indian taxa with their current nomenclatures and distribution has also been appended. The 61 taxa listed in this work include one new species of choerospondias Built. & Hill and a new variety of Nothopegia heyneana (Hook, f.) Gamble. A list of threatened species on the basis of herbaria records has also been included.