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 estimated changes in forest cover between 1973 and 1995 in the southern part of the Western Ghats using satellite data. The study area of approximately 40,000 km showed a loss of 25.6% in forest cover over 22 years. The dense forest was reduced by 19.5% and open forest decreased by 33.2%. As a consequence, degraded forest increased by 26.64%. There has been a great deal of spatial variabilit...

Two new species – Stenaelurillus megamalai sp. nov. (♂♀) from the colorful group and neyyar black white are described southern Western Ghats of India. Detailed morphological descriptions, illustrations, as well distribution maps provided. New distributional data for three other species, albus Sebastian, Sankaran, Malamel & Joseph, 2015, S. arambagensis (Biswas Biswas, 1992) wandae Logunov, ...

Aim We assessed the rates of turnover of tree species with distance (beta diversity) in wet forests of the Western Ghats (WG) complex of India to see whether climate, topographic variation or species traits influence beta diversity. Location The Western Ghats is a chain of mountains about 1600 km in length, running parallel to the western coast of the Indian Peninsula from above 8 ° N to almost...

A new species of Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae), K. dineshii Syam Radh & Nampy, is described and illustrated. The occurs in the Mathikettan Shola National Park southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India, it only known from Idukki district. It morphologically most similar to bhidei, but distinguished latter by its small stature (30-40 cm high), obovate obtrullate sessile leaves adnate stem basal ¼th, w...