Research Article | Published: 01 March 2007

Edible wild relatives of Indo-Malesian fruit trees endemic to the Western Ghats of the Peninsular India

Sainudeen Muhammed Shareef and Sam P. Mathew

Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products | Volume: 14 | Issue: 1 | Page No. 57-62 | 2007
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2007-FZ8LCC | Cite this article

Abstract

Western Ghats, the abode of several botanical entities with promising economic value in modern field of horticulture and plant breeding, covers a biogeographic region of 160,000 km2 along the West Coast of the Peninsular India (Nayar, 1996). This biogeographic zone has multi-dimensional biological affinities with distant landmasses like Malesia, Africa and Polynesia. The present article discusses seven promising, but mostly lesser-known, wild endemic fruit trees of common Indo-Malesian genera found to occur on the slopes of the Western Ghats.

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Shareef, S.M. and Mathew, S.P., 2007. Edible wild relatives of Indo-Malesian fruit trees endemic to the Western Ghats of the Peninsular India. Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products, 14(1), pp.57-62. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2007-FZ8LCC

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