Guidelines for users

The general layout of the species pages consists of updated Botanical Name with Author Citation, Family, special Icons for Habitat, Habit, Uses, Parts used and IUCN status, Taxonomic Hierarchy, Photographs, Common Name [English], Vernacular Name [Malayalam], Nativity, Habitat, Botanical Description, Flowering and Fruiting, Uses, Cultivation practices and References.

Icons for Habitats

All habitats

Homestead

Forest

Seashore

Paddy field

Marshes

Grassland

Terrestrial

Mangrove

Aquatic

Sacred grove

Icons for Habits

Herb

Shrub

Climber

Epiphyte

Palm

Tree

Icons for Uses

Medicine

Food

Gardening

Fodder

Chemicals

Firewood

Timber

Handicrafts

Beverages

Nitrogen fixing

Industrial

Icons for Parts Used

Leaves

Flower

Fruit

Seed

Stem

Wood

Bark

Timber

Tuber

Roots

Rhizome

Whole plant

Icons for IUCN status

Not Evaluated

Least Concerned

Data Deficient

Vulnerable

Near Threatened

Endangered

Critically Endangered

Extinct in Wild

Extinct