Nelumbo - The Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India

M. P. Nair ¹

Affiliations
1 Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, IN

Abstract

Commemorative generic names of plants are given in honour of well known botanists and patrons of science for the contributions they made for the cause of botany. The names are given in alphabetical order with their families and one example under each genus. A brief biographical sketch of the person is also given. Plants named after botanists and eminent persons form one continuous historical sequence in the development of Natural history.

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