About the Book: Trees of Western Ghats India Volume. 1
In the two Volumeumes of the Trees of Western Ghats, a total of 1, 225
flowering tree species have been enumerated in the hill ranges, belonging to 362
genera and 96 families. Among these 96 families, 1 4 families contained more
than 30 species each, they are accounting for 60.5% of the total taxa. Fabaceae
has the highest number of species, with 93 taxa across 32 genera, followed by
Lauraceae with 91 taxa, Myrtaceae with 79, Rubiaceae with 62, Malvaceae with 60,
Euphorbiaceae with 53, Annonaceae with 50 and so on. The largest family is
Fabaceae