Dr. Kothareddy Prasad obtained his M.Sc. (2008) and Ph.D. (2013) degrees in Botany from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Ananthapuram. He was worked as a Post Doctoral fellow (SERB-DST, under young scientist scheme) at Botanical Survey of India, Deccan Regional Centre (2014-2017). At present he is working as AJCB-PDF at Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkatta since June 2017. Dr. K. Prasad has published 30 research papers in national and international journals. He described one new genus and 15 species new to science.
