The importance of bamboos has incresed many-folds during the last few decades as an important source of raw material for various end-uses. Besides besides beling important as a raw material in a number of in-nudustries, bamboos are used in a myriad ways by the rual people and are interwoven with their lifestyle in many parts of our country, e-specially in North-East India Bamboos of North-East India is a pioneering work in the form of a consolidated taxonomic and distributional account based o more than two decades of field works by the authors. It deals with 87 spesies, one variety and one forma belonging to the genera of bambu-soid grasses found to be occurring in North-East-India with explicit keys to the genera and species, updated nomenclature, vernacular names and with profuse illustrations.

Critial discussion on distribution, usage, rare and endangered elements, agro-technique for bamboo cultivation and ornametal bamboo species found in North-East India ate added features of the book.