Category : ObituariesPublished on: January 03 2025
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K.S. Manilal, the botanist who brought the ancient botanical treasure Hortus malabaricus to the modern world, passed away on Wednesday at a private hospital in Thrissur.
He was 86. The Padma Shri awardee had been battling illness for a long time.
A former head of the Botany department at Calicut University, Dr. Manilal dedicated around 35 years to researching, translating, and annotating Hortus malabaricus, a 17th-century Latin manuscript compiled by Dutch Governor Hendrik Adrian van Rheede.
