Contribution to the Flora of Tirupati Hills-part III

Abstract

Present contribution enumerates 382 species and 1 variety of vascular plants belong ing to 92 families collected from the Tirupati Hills and neighbourhood, inclusive of six new records for the Deccan region. With this, a total of 1180 taxa belonging to 156 famalies of vascular plants are known from the Tirupati Hills and neighbourhood. Of these 986 are Dicotyledones, 155 are Monocotyledones, 2 are Gymnosperms and 37 are Pteridophytes. Among the 156 families, Lamiaceae (Papilionaceae) and Poaceae (Gramineae) are well represented with 103 and 72 species respectively, followed closely by Euphorbiaceae, Asteracene (Compositae) and Acanthaceae with 62, 60 and 56 species respectively. Telugu names locally used are given to most taxa.