BIODATA
1. Name (in Block Letters):
2. Designation:
Dr. (Mrs.) RASHMI SRIVASTAVA
Scientist 'F'
2. Date & Place of Birth :
19th October 1957; Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh, India.
3. Institution:
Birbal Sahni Institute of
Palaeobotany, Lucknow
4. Date of Joining Research
1977 (Lucknow University)
Since 1981 working at Birbal Sahni Institute of
Palaeobotany, Lucknow
5. Academic Qualifications
M.Sc. Botany (Botany)
Ph.D. Palaeobotany
1977
1985
Lucknow University
Lucknow University
6. Research Experience: About 33 years in Palaeofloristics (Mainly fossil woods) of sedimentary
sequences associated with Deccan Traps, Warkalli Formation and pre-Siwalik sediments of India. I
have studied the Tertiary plant fossils from different areas of Himalayas, Kerala, Deccan
Intertrappeans of central and western India and made significant contributions to the floristics,
palaeoecology and phytogeography of the Tertiary of India. In addition, investigated anatomical
features of the Tertiary fossil woods of Japan (Kyushu Island) and Java Island, Indonesia.
(i)Japanese wood (with Prof.M.Suzuki) – Fossil woods from Oligocene of Japan are very interesting
having temperate to subtropical elements and their anatomical features entirely different from
Tertiary fossils from India.
(ii)Indonesian woods-(with Noriko Kagemori & Kazuo Terada, Japan; Yance Mandang & Sapri
Hadiwisastra, Indonesia) Working in an International project in collaboration with Japanese and
Indonesian scientists. The fossil woods from Pliocene sediments of different localities of Java Island
were investigated for identification The assemblage is very similar with the Neogene flora of India.
Further work is in progress.
7. Awards /Prize / Certificate etc.
(i)
Fellowship awarded under Indian National Science Academy(INSA) -Japan Society for
Promotion of Science (JSPS), in 1998.
(ii)
Chandra Dutt Pant Madel for best piece of research work in 2002.
(iii)
Fellowship awarded under Indian National Science Academy (INSA) –Polish Academy of
Sciences (PAS), in 2010.
8. Memberships/ Fellowships of scientific/professional bodies/societies/academies:
1. Fellow, Palaeobotanical Society, Lucknow
2. Life member International Society of Plant Morphologists, New Delhi
3. Fellow, The Palaeontological Society of India, Lucknow
4. Life member Indian Society of Geoscientists, Lucknow
5. Fellow, Society Earth Scientists, Lucknow
List of Publication
(In chronological order)
1. Trivedi B.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 1980. Elaeocarpoxylon mohgaonse sp. nov., from the
Deccan Intertrappean Series of Mohgaon Kalan, Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh.
Biovigyanum 6: 185-186.
2. Trivedi B.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 1981. A new species of Oleoxylon from the Deccan
Deccan Intertrappean beds of Jhiria, Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh. Biovigyanum
7: 83-84.
3. Trivedi B.S. & Srivastava Rashmi. 1982a. A fossil woods of Ebenaceae from the Deccan
Intertrappean beds of District, Madhya Pradesh. (India). J. Indian bot. Soc. 61: 254-259.
4. Trivedi B.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 1982b. Aesculoxylon deccanensis gen. et sp. nov. from
Mohgaon Kalan, Chhindwara District, M.P. J. Indian bot. Soc. 61: 426-431.
5. Trivedi B.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 1989. Gymnospermous woods from Early Tertiary of
Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh. Phytomorphology 39 (1): 61-68.
6. Awasthi N. & Srivastava Rashmi 1989. Canarium palaeoluzonicum, a new fossil wood from
the Neogene of Kerala with remarks on the nomenclature of fossil woods of Burseraceae.
Palaeobotanist 37 (2): 173-179.
7. Awasthi N. & Srivastava Rashmi 1990. Some new carbonised woods from the Neogene of
Kerala coast and their bearing on palaeoclimate. In: Jain K.P. & Tewari R.S. (eds.)- Proc.
Symp. "Vistas in Indian Palaeobotany," Palaeobotanist 38: 285-292.
8. Trivedi B.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 1990. Nomenclatural note on some new
combinations in Araucarioxylon and Podocarpoxylon (Fossil). Taxon 39(4): 658-659.
9. Srivastava Rashmi 1991. A catalogue of fossil plants from India—4. Cenozoic
(Tertiary) Megafossils. Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow: 1-45.
10. Awasthi N. & Srivastava Rashmi 1992. Additions to the Neogene flora of Kerala Coast,
India. Geophytology 20 (2): 148-154.
11. Awasthi N. & Srivastava Rashmi 1992. Fossil leaves and a fruit from Warkalli beds, Kerala
Coast, India. Geophytology 21 (1): 53-57.
12. Mehrotra R.C. & Srivastava Rashmi 1994. Araucarian seed scale from the Deccan
Intertrappean beds of India. J. Indian bot. Soc. 73: 329-330.
13. Srivastava Rashmi & Awasthi N. 1994. Carbonised woods of Sterculiaceae and
Sapindaceae from Middle Miocene sediments of Kerala coast. Palaeobotanist 42 (2): 178182.
14. Bande M.B. & Srivastava Rashmi 1995. Grewia -type of fossil wood from the Deccan
Intertrappean beds of India. Geophytology 24 (2): 131-135.
15. Srivastava Rashmi 1996. Systematic anatomy of fossil woods in the Tertiary
flora of India. pp. 129-138 in Donaldson, L.J., Singh, A.P., Butterfield, B.G. &
Whitehouse, L.J. (Editors)- Recent Advances in Wood Anatomy, New Zealand Forest
Research Institute, Ltd.
16. Awasthi N., Mehrotra R.C. & Srivastava Rashmi 1996. Fossil woods from the Deccan
Intertrappean beds of Madhya Pradesh. Geophytology 25: 113-118.
17. Awasthi N., Guleria J.S., Prasad M. & Srivastava Rashmi 1996. Occurrence of Acrostichum
Linn., a coastal fern in the Tertiary sediments of Himachal Pradesh, north-west Himalaya.
Palaeobotanist 43 (2): 83-87.
18. Srivastava Rashmi & Awasthi N. 1996. Fossil woods from Neogene of Warkalli beds of
Kerala coast and their palaeoecological significance. Geophytology 26 (1): 89-98.
19. Srivastava Rashmi & Saxena R. K. 1998. Carbonised woods from the Sindhudurg
Formation ( Miocene ) in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg Dristricts, Maharashtra, India .
Geophytology 27 (1&2): 23-33.
20. Srivastava, Rashmi 1999. Fossil woods of Artocarpus from Warkalli Formation of Kerala
Coast, India. Phytomorphology 48(4): 391-397.
21. Guleria J.S., Srivastava Rashmi & Prasad M. 2000. Some fossil leaves from the Kasauli
Formation of Himachal Pradesh, North-west India. Himalayan Geology 20(1-2): 43-52.
22. Guleria J.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 2000. Observations on the fossil fern Goniopteris
prolifera Presl. and its present status. Phytomorphology 50 (1): 11-13.
23. Srivastava A K, Abbas S.R., Mehrotra R.C. & Srivastava Rashmi 2000. Cecidomyiid leaf
galls from Palaeocene leaf of Northeast India. Acta Palaeobotanica 40 (1): 43-47.
24. Srivastava Rashmi 1999 (issued in 2000). Bhartiya vano ka udbhav evum vikas :
puravanaspatik vishleshan. Vigyan Garima Sindhu 30: 49-53 (in Hindi).
25. Srivastava Rashmi & Suzuki M. 2001. More fossil woods from the Palaeogene of Northern
Kyushu, Japan. IAWA Journal 22: 85-105.
26. Guleria J.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 2001. Fossil dicotyledonous woods from the
Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Kachchh, Gujarat, Western India. Palaeontographica 256B:
17-33.
27. Arya R., Guleria J.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 2001. New records of plant fossil from the
Kasauli sediments of Himachal Pradesh, North-West India. Phytomorphology 51(1): 4157.
28. Guleria J.S., Srivastava Rashmi & Arya R. 2001. Occurrence of fossil Miltragyna in the
Early Miocene of Himachal Pradesh, India. Palaeobotanist 49: 485-489.
29. Srivastava Rashmi & Guleria J.S. 2001. Grewinium, a substitute name for Grewioxylon
Shallom non Schuster. Palaeobotanist 49: 531-532.
30. Srivastava Rashmi 2001. Angiospermous fossil woods from lignite beds of Warkalli
Formation, Kerala coast, India. pp. 135-144. In Dutta et al. (Editors) Proceedings of
National Seminar on Recent Advances in Geology of Coal and Lignite Basins of India,
Calcutta, 1997, Geological Survey of India Special publication 54.
31. Srivastava Rashmi & Kagemori N. 2001. Fossil wood of Drybalanops from Pliocene
deposits of Indonesia. Palaeobotanist 50: 395-401.
32. Guleria J.S., Gupta S.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 2002. Fossil woods from Upper Tertiary
sediments of Jammu region (Jammu & Kashmir) North-West India and their significance.
Palaeobotanist 50: 225-246.
*33. Srivastava Rashmi 2002. Rashtrya Jeevashm Udyan, Ghughua. BSIP News Letter. 18 (In
Hindi).
34. Kagemori N., Kawai S., Terada K., Mandang Y, Srivastava Rashmi, Futatsugawa S, Sera
K. 2003. PIXE analysis of silicified fossil woods from the Pliocene Genteng Formation,
West Java, Indonesia. NMCC Annual Report 11: 248-253.
35. Khare E.G., Prasad M. & Srivastava Rashmi 2003. Some more fossil leaf impressions from
Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Madhya Pradesh. National conference on Biodiversity and
Applied Biology of Plants, Department of Botany, University of Lucknow. (Abst.).
36. Srivastava Rashmi 2003. Fossil dicotyledonous woods from Deccan Intertrappean
sediments of Ghansor, Seoni District, M. P. and their palaeoclimatological significance.
National conference on Biodiversity and Applied Biology of Plants, Department of
Botany, University of Lucknow.(Abst.).
37. Srivastava Rashmi 2003. Neogene flora of India with special reference to South-East Asian
elements. International Workshop on silicified woods from Java Island, Indonesia held at
Wood Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. : 8-9(Abst.).
38. Srivastava Rashmi & Guleria J.S. 2004. Leaf impressions from Kasauli Formation of
Himachal Pradesh and their palaeoenvironmental significance. Geophytology 32: 97-106.
39. Ambwani K, Kar R.K. Srivastava Rashmi & Debi D. 2004. Occurrence of urticaceous fruit
from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaon Kalan, Chhindwara District, Madhya
Pradesh. Geophytology 32: 29-33.
40. Srivastava Rashmi & Guleri, J.S. 2004. Fossil wood of Anacardiaceae from the
Deccan Intertrappean sediments of Betul district, Madhya Pradesh. Geophytology 33: 5356.
41. Kar, R.K., Mohabey, D. M. & Srivastava Rashmi 2004. Angiospermous fossil
woods from the Lameta Formation (Maastrichtian), Maharashtra, India. Geophytology
33: 21-27.
42. Srivastava Rashmi & Kar R.K. 2004. Record of new petrified epiphyllous fungi
(Polyhyphaethyrites) from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaon Kalan, Madhya
Pradesh, India. Current Science 87(7): 868-869.
43. Guleria J.S., Srivastava Rashmi & Misra K.S. 2004. A rare occurrence of plant
and animal fossils in the Deccan Basalts of Khandwa District, Madhya Pradesh, India.
International Confferece on ‘Modern trends in Plant Sciences with special reference to
the role of Biodiversity in Conservation’ held at Department of Botany, Amravati
University, Amravati. (Abst).
44. Srivastava Rashmi 2004. Palaeobiodiversity in Tertiary sequences of India.
International Conference on ‘Modern trends in Plant Sciences with special reference to
the role of Biodiversity in Conservation’ held at Department of Botany, Amravati
University, Amravati, p.147. (Abst).
45. Guleria, J.S., Srivastava, Rashmi, Nanda, A.C. & Sehgal R.K. 2005. Two fossil
woods from the Siwalik Subgroup of Northwest Himalaya. Journal of the Geological
Society of India. 66 : 609-616.
46. Awasthi, N. & Srivastava, R. 2005. Neogene flora of Kerala coast and its
palaeoecological and phytogeographical implications. In: R Reddy et al. (eds.) Gleanings
in Plant Sciences, Prof. Ramanujam Commem. Vol. Dttasons, Nagpur: 265-277.
47. Guleria J.S. & Srivastava Rashmi 2005. Vegetation and environment of the
Deccan Plateau of India across Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary : An analysis based on
megafossils.Workshop on Recent Advances and Perspective Challenges in Indian NonMarine Late Cretaceous, Nagpur; Gondwana Geological Magazine Special Volume 8 :
75. .(Abst).
48. Guleria J.S., Mehrotra R.C. & Srivastava Rashmi 2005. Fossil remains of Acorus Linn. in
the Palaeogene sediments of India. National Seminar on Geology and Energy Resources
of NE India: Progress & Perspective and Annual General Meeting of Geological Society
of India, Nagaland University, Kohima. 18-19. (Abst).
49. Srivastava Rashmi & Guleria J.S. 2006. A Catalogue of Cenozoic (Tertiary)
plant Megafossils from India (1989-1005). B.S.I.P. Diamond Jubilee Spec-Publ., 1-76.
50. Srivastava Rashmi 2006. Evolutionary trends in the Cretaceous - Tertiary
dicotyledonous woods of India and their ecological/functional aspects. In Changing
Scenario in Palaeobotany and allied subjects, Diamond Jubilee International Conference,
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow. : 159-161. (Abst).
51. Srivastava Rashmi 2006. Vegetational pattern in the Neogene sequence
of India. 7th European Palaeobotany-Palynology Conference, Czech Republic, Prague. :
132-133. (Abst).
*52. Srivastava Rashmi 2006. Obitury Note-Dr. Manoj Shukla. Geophytology 36:
129-130.
*53. Srivastava Rashmi 2007. Report on B.S.I.P. Mahila Club: 56-57 (In Hindi).
54. Srivastava Rashmi 2008. Fossil dicotyledonous woods from Deccan Intertrappean beds of
Seoni District, Madhya Pradesh and their palaeoenvironmental significance. Conference
on Plant Life Through the Ages, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow: 184.
(Abst).
55. Guleria J.S. & Rashmi Srivastava 2008. Angiospermous woods from Deccan Intertrappean
beds of Chiraidongri, Mandla District, Madhya Pradesh. Conference on Plant Life
Through the Ages, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow: 57. (Abst).
*56. Srivastava Rashmi 2008. Savitri Sahni Mahila Samiti: Gatividhiyon bhara dvitiya varsh.
BSIP News Letter. 38-39 (In Hindi).
57. Srivastava Rashmi 2008. Fossil wood resembling Sonneratia with fungal infection from
Deccan Intertrappean sediments of Seoni District, Madhya Pradesh. Geophytology 37:
87-92.
58. Srivastava Rashmi, Kapgate D.K. & Chaterjee S. 2009. Perminaralised fungal remains in
the fossil wood of Barringtonia from the Deccan Intertrappean sediments of
Yavatmal District, Maharashtra, India. Palaeobotanist 58: 11-19.
59. Srivastava Rashmi & Mehrotra R.C. 2009. Plant remains from the Dafla
Formation, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh. Palaeobotanist 58: 33-49.
*60. Srivastava Rashmi 2009. Savitri Sahni Mahila Samiti: Ek aur safal varsh. BSIP News
Letter. 34-35 (In Hindi).
61. Srivastava A.K. & Srivastava Rashmi 2010. Insect-plant dynamics in fossil flora of India.
Alavesia 3: 3-10.
62. Guleria J.S., Srivastava Rashmi, B. Ajay Kumar & Satheesh R. 2010. Holocene woody
vegetation and environment of Meenachil River Basin, Kottayam District, Kerala,
India. Geophytology: 38: 1-14.
*63. Srivastava Rashmi 2010. Savitri Sahni Mahila Samiti: Uddeshyon ki ore agrasar. BSIP
News Letter. 35-36 (In Hindi).
64. Srivastava Rashmi 2010. Fossil dicotyledonous woods from Deccan Intertrappean sediments
of Ghansor, Seoni District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Palaeobotanist 59: 129-138.
65. Srivastava G, Srivastava Rashmi & Mehrotra R.C. 2011. Ficus palaeoracemosa sp. nov.- a
new fossil leaf from the Kasauli Formation of Himachal Pradesh and its palaeoclimatic
significance. J. Earth Science System 120 (2): 253-262.
66. Terada K, Kagemori N, Mandang Y., Srivastava Rashmi & Kagemori Y 2011. What can
fossil wood tell us? The identification of fossil woods from thee Pliocene of West Java,
Indonesia. The 177th Symposium on Sustainable Humanosphere, Proceedings of the
wood culture and science, Kyoto: 44-47.
67. Srivastava Rashmi & Krassilov V.A. 2012. Revision of Early Cretaceous angiosperm
remains from the Rajmahal basin, India with notes on the palaeoecology of Pentoxylon
plant. Cretaceous Research 33: 66-71.
68. Srivastava Rashmi, Saxena R.K. & Srivastava G. 2012. Pterospermumo-carpon, a new
malvalean fruit genus from the Sindhudurg Formation (Miocene) of Maharashtra,
India and its phytogeographical significance. J. Earth Science System 121: 183-193.
69. Srivastava Rashmi 2011. Indian Upper Cretaceous-Tertiary flora before collision
of Indian Plate: A reappraisal of Central and Western Indian Flora. Memoir of the
Geological Society of India 77: 281-292.
70. Ram- Awatar, Mehrotra R.C., Srivastava Rashmi, Yadav K.C. & Gautam S.
2013. Further contributions to the palynological studies showing marine
incursion in the Talchir Formation, Manendragarh, Koriya District,
Chhattisgarh. Science and Technology Journal 1(2): 3-7.
71. Srivastava Rashmi, Chandel R.S. & Singh S. 2014. Fossil wood of Dipterocarpus from
Nagri Formation (Middle Miocene) of India: palaeoclimatic and phytogeographical
significance. The Palaeobotanist 63(1): 41–49.
72. Srivastava Rashmi & Srivastava G. 2014. Fossil fruit of Cocos L. (Arecaceae) from
Maastrichtian-Danian sediments of central India and its phytogeographical significance.
Acta Palaeobotanica 54(1): 67–75; DOI: 10.2478/acpa-2014-0003
73. Kumaran K.P.N., Padmalal D., Nair K.M., Limaye Ruta B., Guleria J.S., Srivastava
Rashmi, Shukla A. 2014. Vegetation response and landscape dynamics of Indian
Summer Monsoon variations during Holocene: An eco-geomorphological appraisal of
tropical evergreen forest subfossil logs. Plos One 9(4): e93596, doi:10.1371.
74. Sharma D.C., Khan M.S., Khan M.S., Srivastava Rashmi, Srivastava A.K. & Shukla R.
2014. A report on biocompounds from palm fossil of India. Bioinformation 10(5): 316319 (print); ISSN 0973-2063 (online) 0973-8894.