Contribution to the Flora of Tirupati Hills-part II

Abstract

The paper enumerates 328 species and 2 varieties of vascular plants collected from the Tirupati Hills and neighbourhood, inclusive of three additions to the Flora of the Presidency of Madras and nine new records for the Deccan Region. With this, 797 taxa of vascular plants are known from the Tirupati Hills at present. Of these 647 are Dicotyledones, 118 are Monocotyledones, 2 are Gymnosperms and 30 are Pteridophytes. Flower colour and locally used Telugu names are given for most taxa.