Dipterocarpus bourdillonii, a Critically Endangered tree species endemic to the Western Ghats, India, has hitherto been reported mainly from states of Kerala and Karnataka on western slopes mountain range. In Tamil Nadu, this occur in two locations, but no population details have documented neither listed state floras nor recent compendium plant species. The present study documents occurrence s...

This study explores the climatological diurnal cycle of precipitation during summer monsoon season over southeast India using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3G68 product from 2000 to 2014. The primary area focus is leeward side Western Ghats. We found that this exhibits a bimodal peak with an afternoon/evening near eastern slopes Ghats and nocturnal coast. coast propagated offshore ...

Medicinal plants used to treat diabetic conditions are of considerable interest and a number of plants have shown varying degrees of hypoglycaemic and antihyperglycaemic activity. An ethno-medicobotanical survey was carried out among the Kani and Paliyar tribals in southern Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu for the exploration of antidiabetic herbal medicines. They frequently use ten species of plant...

We present and describe the fairy shrimp Streptocephalus sahyadriensis sp. nov. from the Western Ghats of India. This species is most similar to S. simplex Gurney, 1906 and S. dichotomus Baird, 1860 sharing similar basic antennal appendage morphology. However, S. sahyadriensis sp. nov. differs in the form of the ornamentation on the peduncle and the arrangement and form of spines on the antenna...