Dear all, Sh. Prabhu Kumar K M is a Scientist in Plant Systematics & Genetic Resources Division of Centre for Medicinal Plant Research (CMPR), & 'CMPR' Herbarium, Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Malappuram. Actually he has specialized in Zingiberaceae in India under Dr. M. Sabu, Professor, Dept. of Botany, Calicut University. The revision is over. His other specilaized genera are Premna, Striga and Caralluma.
He has been helping us & guiding us, mainly with our identification queries over past fifteen months as per posting details as per link (221 posts so far): https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!profile/indiantreepix/APn2wQfRAke2QbMOUoIBRv02Co9X_42EjBNZ5LjFSS8a3WlFEEKwEodoJtPm8Jl7uvpt07kCZqOL Other members may be knowing more about him & are requested to let us know more. We are sincerely thankful to him in this regard & look forward for his guidance. -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1900 members & 1,23,300 messages on 31/7/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --

