Mamiyil Sabu

Mamiyil Sabu (Dr M. Sabu) formerly Head of the Department of Botany, University of Calicut and currently working as CSIR-Emeritus Scientist at Malabar Botanical Garden and Institute for Plant Sciences, Kozhikode district, Kerala, India. He worked for over 37 years on the research of gingers, (Order Zingiberales) which include families such as  Cannaceae, Marantaceae (arrowroot family), Zingiberaceae (ginger family), Heliconiaceae, Costaceae, Musaceae (banana family) etc. A comprehensive work on these groups have been taken after a gap of 125 years, which resulted in the discovery of several new species and rediscovery of many species after 155 years.

Sabu has published over 168 research papers and 12 books as author and co-author. He and his associates have discovered over 58 new species of flowering plants and eight cultivars new to science. He has contributed significantly to the study of Indian angiosperm taxonomy by serving as Secretary and Treasurer of Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy for more than 20 years.

He has been officiating as the officer-in-charge of Calicut University Botanic Garden since 1999 to 2019. He has taken up programmes for the conservation of endangered taxa through MoEF & CC Project. Provided by Wikipedia