Dr Abhijit H U is a Senior Project Associate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He completed his MSc in Applied Botany from Kuvempu University, Karnataka, in 2016, graduating with first rank and two gold medals. He obtained his PhD in 2022 as a DST Inspire Fellow.
He taught at Sri JCBM College, Sringeri (2016–2017), and later worked as a Research Associate at the Biodiversity Education and Research Lab, Environment Study Center, Shivamogga (2022–2023). His research interests include plant taxonomy and ecology, with a particular focus on grass systematics. He is the co-founder of the NGO AJASRA and currently serves as the Director of the Plant Systematics and Ecology Lab at the Ajasra Research and Education Centre, under the Ajasra Charitable Trust, Sringeri. He has published 15 research papers in national and international journals and has handled four research projects across Karnataka.
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Grass Flora of the Central Western Ghats
₹3,000.00Authors: Abhijit H U, Krishnamurthy Y L
This comprehensive flora presents 231 wild grass taxa and eight cultivated taxa across 95 genera, including seven bamboo taxa, from the central Western Ghats of Karnataka. Among these, one variety is newly described to science, four species are newly recorded for the flora of Karnataka, and one grass species has a new locality record. It serves as an updated resource for the district grass floras of this region.
The book provides detailed species descriptions, artificial dichotomous keys, phenology, and distribution information at the global, national, and state levels. It also includes information on habitat, habit, and sample collection areas for all species recorded in the study. The inclusion of 194 photo plates depicting dissected grasses, spikelets, various habitats, and four bamboo illustrations represents a key feature of this work.Interested readers may write to us at mup@manipal.edu about purchasing the book.
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