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MILIND MADHAV SARDESAI M.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Botany
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University,
AURANGABAD-431 004 (M.S.) India.
Contact Details:
(Phone Office) +91-240-2403304 (Fax) +91-240-2403199 (Cell) +91-8805075007
msardesai.botany@bamu.net sardesaimm@gmail.com
Honors:
‣ Honorary Member, Plant Expert Committee, Maharashtra State Biodiversity Board
‣ Honorary member of Species Survival Committee [SSC] of International Union for
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources [IUCN]
‣ Honorary Fellow of Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (FIAAT)
Research Projects Carries Out:
Sr.
Title of the Project
Funding
Cost of
Status
Role in
Duration
No.
Agency
the
the
project
project
i. D-base on flowering plant
Department
wealth of Maharashtra,
of Science &
17/07/2001
their potential values and
Technology,
`9.94 lacs Completed PI
to
utilization for sustainable
New Delhi
16/07/2004
development
ii.
Studies on Some Rare,
Department
Endemic and Critically
of Science &
11/10/2006
Endangered Flowering
Technology,
`4.80 lacs Completed PI
to
Plants of Western Ghats
New Delhi
03/07/2008
and their Ex-situ
Conservation
Milind M. Sardesai, Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (M.S.) India 1

iii.
Application of GIS-RS in
Mapping and Conservation
of Threatened Medicinal
Plant Species from
northern Western Ghats of
India
University of
Pune-ISRO `7.27 lacs Completed Co-PI
01/06/2008
to
30/05/2010
Published Books:
i
Sardesai, Milind M., Ravikiran Govekar and S. R. Yadav. (2013). ‘Field Guide to the Flowering
Plants of Maharashtra’. Research Wing, Forest Department, Government of Maharashtra. pp.
xii + 340.
ii
Sardesai, M.M. and S. R. Yadav. (2004). ‘Key to the Families of Flowering Plants of
Maharashtra’. Phadke Prakashan, Kolhapur. pp. v + 40, figs 2.
iii Yadav, S.R. and M.M. Sardesai. (2002). ‘Flora of Kolhapur District’. Shivaji University,
Kolhapur. pp. xiv +680, pl. 50, figs.100.
Articles Written in Books:
i
Gaikwad, S. P., M.M. Sardesai and S. R. Yadav. 2003. Aquatic Plant Diversity of Coastal
Plains of Konkan, Goa and Karnataka in: T. Pulliah (ed.) Biodiversity of India Regency
Publications, New Delhi. 2: 89–199.
ii
Sardesai, M.M. and S. R. Yadav. 2004. Genus Habenaria Willd. (Orchidaceae) in
Maharashtra in: T. Pulliah (ed.) Biodiversity of India. 3: 144–172.
Papers Published:
1. Gaikwad, S. P., M.M. Sardesai und S. R. Yadav. 1998. Naturliche hybriden (?) zwischen
Aponogeton appendiculatus H. W. E. van Bruggen und A. undulatus Roxburgh und ihr Nutzen
fur die Aquaristik. Aqua-Planta. 23(2): 54–67.
2. Yadav, S. R., S. P. Gaikwad and M.M. Sardesai. 1998. A new species of Eriocaulon L. from
India. Rheedea. 8(2): 145–147.
Milind M. Sardesai, Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (M.S.) India 2

3. Yadav, S. R., M.M. Sardesai and S. P. Gaikwad. 2000. Two new species of Utricularia L.
(Lentibulariaceae) from Peninsular India. Rheedea. 10(2): 107–112.
4. Sardesai, M.M., S.M. Bhuskute and S. R. Yadav. 2001. Lentibulariaceae in Maharashtra. J.
Econ. & Taxon. Bot. 25(3): 687–702.
5. Gaikwad, S. P., M.M. Sardesai and S. R. Yadav. 2002. A new species of Eriocaulon L.
(Eriocaulaceae) from Maharashtra, India. Rheedea 12(2): 133–136.
6. Gaikwad, S. P., M.M. Sardesai and S.R. Yadav. 2004. Aquatic flowering plant wealth of South-
Western Maharashtra, Bulletin of Botanical Survey of India 46(1–4): 196–215.
7. Gaikwad, S. P., M.M. Sardesai, S.R. Yadav and U.S. Yadav. 2004. New species of Eriocaulon L.
(Eriocaulaceae) from Karnataka, India. Rheedea. 14 (1 & 2): 63–65.
8. Yadav, S.R., M.M. Sardesai and S.P. Gaikwad. 2004. Ceropegia anantii (Ascelpiadaceae), a
new species from Western Ghats, India. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 101 (1): 141–143.
9. Yadav, S.R., M.M. Sardesai and S.P. Gaikwad. 2005. A new Species of Utricularia
(Lentibulariaceae) from Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Rheedea. 15(1): 71-73.
10. Sardesai, M.M., S. P. Gaikwad and S. R. Yadav. 2006. A new species of Chlorophytum Ker.-
Gawl. (Anthericaceae) from Western Ghats, India, Kew Bulletin. 61 (2): 269–271.
11. Sardesai, M.M., S. P. Gaikwad and S.R. Yadav. 2006. A new variety of Arisaema sahyadricum
Yadav et al. (Araceae) from Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Rheedea. 16 (1): 45–48.
12. Yadav, S.R., M.N. Gavade and M.M. Sardesai. 2006. A new species of Ceropegia L.
(Asclepiadaceae) from Konkan, Maharashtra, India. Rheedea. 16 (1): 33–36.
13. Sardesai, M.M. and S.R. Yadav. 2008. Floral Dimorphism in Utricularia janarthanamii S.R.
Yadav et al. Carnivorous Plants Newsletter. 37 (1): 12–14.
14. Das, M.K., R.S. Sharma, M. Sardesai, S.R. Yadav and V. Mishra. 2009. Purification and
characterization of a unique peroxidase from a wild plant from Western Ghats region (India).
Federation of European Biochemical Sciences Journal (FEBS Journal). 275 (S1): 397.
Milind M. Sardesai, Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (M.S.) India 3

15. Sardesai, M.M. and S.R. Yadav. 2011. Notes on the distribution of Maesa velutina Mez
(Myrsinaceae) - a rare and endemic plant from India. J. Threatened Taxa. 3 (4): 1735 – 1736.
16. Wadoodkhan, M.A., R.D. Taur, P. Lakshminarasimhan, M. M. Sardesai and R. I. Shaikh. 2011.
Novelties in cyperaceae IX - new specific and intraspecific taxa of Eleocharis R. Br. Bioinfolet.
8(1): 5 – 10.
17. Chavan, S.Y. & M.M. Sardesai. 2012. Range extension of Alysicarpus naikianus Pokle
(Fabaceae) in western India. J. Threatened Taxa 4(5): 2590–2592.
18. Francis, J.W., M.M. Dandu, M.M. Sardesai & A.S. Dhabe. 2012. Note on Celastrus paniculatus
Willd. ssp. aggregatus K.M. Matthew ex K.T. Matthew (Celastraceae). J. Threatened Taxa 4
(15): 3450–3453.
19. Chavan, Shantanu, M. M. Sardesai and D. S. Pokle. 2013. Alysicarpus sanjappae, a new
species (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) from the Western Ghats of India. Kew Bulletin. 68(1):
183-186.
20. Bagane, S. A., A. V. Kattee, M. M. Lekhak, M. M. Sardesai and S. R. Yadav. 2014. Mitotic
chromosome studies in Nesphostylis bracteata, an endemic legume from Western Ghats,
India. Cytologia. 79(1): 59 – 62.
21. Gaikwad, S. P., M. M. Sardesai and S. R. Yadav. Rotala sahyadrica sp. nov. (Lythraceae), from
Western Ghats, India. Nordic Journal of Botany. 32: 575 – 577. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-
1051.2013.00322.x
Membership of Societies:
1. Life-member of Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (IAAT).
2. Life-member of Indian Botanical Society (IBS).
3. Life-member of Association for Plant Taxonomy (APT).
4. Life-member of Marathwada Botanical Society (MBS).
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