Dr. Noorunnisa Begum research over the last 20 years has focused on  Establishment  of  FRLH Herbarium and Raw Drug Repository of Medicinal Plants used in Indian System of Medicine as well as traded in the country.  She has initiated virtual herbarium (http://envis.frlht.org) so that the herbarium is accessible to the wider world. She has worked on projects spanning  diversified areas namely conservation, ethnobotany, study of trade of medicinal plants in India, Pharmacognosy, Climate Change, Re-visiting of MPCAs funded by MoEF, DST, NMPB, State Biodiversity Board, State Medicinal Plant Board, National Biodiversity Board, World Bank, CSR funds from industries etc. The key research area is study of botanicals as resource, their conservation as well as its utilization using modern tools.

She is involved in authentication service  of confirming the and validating the identity of herbarium specimens and raw drug samples for various stake holders.

Ongoing Projects / Research

Teaching Activities

Anchoring unique Masters by Research in Plant Systematics and also TDU – Ph.D. guide.

Outreach Activities

As part of Outreach she has conducted Workshops, awareness, orientation and training program on Identification of medicinal plants, raw drugs and Herbarium techniques for ISM students, Researchers, Pharmacy students, Forest Officials. She has been involved as resource persons – to teach topics related to Medicinal Plant diversity, Trade, Threats, Conservation organised etc. within TDU as well as by other institutions.

Selected Publications

Scientific Papers
1. Vijay Barve, D.K. Ved, S. Noorunnisa Begum, Latha, R. “ Eco-Distribution mapping of the priority medicinal plants of southern India”, Current Science, Vol. 75, No. 3, 10 August 1998.
2. Udayan P.S., Noorunnisa Begum, Anjana Mudappa, Archna Singh, 2003 "Medicinal Plants Diversity of Karnataka MPCAs" Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany, vol.27 No. 3(2003) pp. 635-639
3. Noorunnisa Begum, S. 2012. Anatomy of Himalayan species Marsdenia roylei Wight J. of Swamy Botanical Club. 29 (1,2,3 &4): 73-78.
4. Umeshkumar Tiwari, Sebestian J.Adams, Noorunnisa Begum S and Kulithalai V. Krishnamurthy, K.Ravikumar and Venkatasubramanian Padma. 2014. Pharmacog-nostic Studies on Two Himalayan Species of Traditional Medicinal Value: Allium wallichii and Allium stracheyi. Not. Sci. Biol. 2014.6(2): 149-154.
5. K.Ravikumar, N.Balachnadran and S.Noorunnisa Begum. 2013. Polygala paniculata L. (Polygalaceae) – a new record to India Phytotaxonomy, Vol. 13. Pp. 137-139
6. K.Ravikumar, S. Noorunnisa Begum and R.Vijayasankar. 2014. Notes on the distribution on Semecarpus subpanduriformis Wallich ex Hooker f. (Anacardiaceae) in India. In. Diversity and Conservation of Plants and Traditional Knowledge (eds. S. P anda & C. Ghosh), Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun 305-308.
7. S.Noorunnisa Begum, K.Ravikumar & D.K.Ved. 2014. ‘Asoka’ – an important medicinal plant, its market scenario and conservation measures in India. CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 107, NO. 26 1, Pp.26-28.
8. Udayan, P.S., A.V. Raghu, S.Noorunnisa Begum and A.K. Pradeep. 2015. Diospyros udaiyanii (Ebenaceae), A New species from Western Ghats, India. Bangladesh J. Plant. Taxon. 22(2): 83-86.
9. Stephen A., Nikita S., Nidhi T., Noorunnisa B and Ravikumar K. 2017. Microscopic Study of Pollen Morphology on Selected Species of Jatropha L. J. Phytol. Res. 30 (1) : 1-6.
10. K. Ravikumar, A.C. Tangavelou, N. Dhatchanamoorthy, Syed Noorunnisa Begum. 2018. Ethno-Medico Botany of Malayali Tribes in Sittilingi Hills, Harur Taluk and Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu. MyForest. Vol. 54 (Issue 1).
11. K. Ravikumar, N.Dhatchanamoorthy, C. Tangavelou, T. S. Suma and S. Noorunnisa Begum.New Additions to the angiospermic flora of Nagaland, India. Pleione 12(1): 118 - 127. 2018.
12. N. Dhatchanamoorthy, K. Ravikumar and S. Noorunnisa Begum. 2018. Notes on new distribution of two Endemic species of Southern India. ISSN: 0972-4206. Phytotaxonomy 17: 55-57.
13. Noorunnisa Begum S., R. Patturaj and K. Ravikumar. 2019. Comparative pharmacognostical and histochemical studies on the three different species of Tinospora on stem and leaf. J. of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 219 (8) 2: 650-655

Awards / Memberships

Indian Association of Angiosperm Taxonomy
Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group of the IUCN/SSC
Life membership of the journal of Phytotaxonomy

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