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Department of Plant Sciences
University of Colombo
P.O.Box 1490, Colombo 03
Sri Lanka

 Phone : +94(0)11 2585038
 Fax : +94(0)11 2585038
 Email: office@pts.cmb.ac.lk

Address: Department of Plant Sciences, University of Colombo , P.O.Box 1490 , Colombo 03.

E-Mail: olikan@sltnet.lk

Phone:+94 (0)11 2585038 ext-209 (office) +94 (0)11 2852339 (residence)

• Mycorrhizae
• Control of water pollution
• Wetlands
• Biofuel plants

• Senior Professor of Botany

PUBLICATIONS

1. Abeykoon, K.F. and Pigott, C.D. (1975). The inability of Brachypodium sylvaticum and other species to utilize apatite or organically bound phosphate in calcareous soils, New Phytoloigst, 74, 147 - 151.
2. Biology Book 1. Advanced Level (1976). Published by the Education Department of Sri Lanka, Sinhala Translation.
3. De Alwis, D.P. and Abeynayake, K. (1980). A survey of the mycorrhizae in some forest trees of Sri Lanka in P. Mikola (Ed.) Tropical Mycorrhiza Research (1980) Clarendon Press Oxford, pp. 146 - 153.
4. Abeynayake, K. (1980) .Irrigation and Envrionment: Basic Information for Extension Workers in Sri Lanka. A book prepared for the East West Centre, Hawaii, pp 1-88.
5. De Alwis, D.P. and Abeynayake, K. (1981). Some observations on endomycorrhizal symbionts of a wet zone forest in Sri Lanka. In J.T. Talbot and W.Swanson (Ed.) Woodpower - New Perspectives on forest usage, Pergamon Press, pp 187 -202.
6. Abeynayake, K. (1982). Mycorrhizal research activities in Sri Lanka in Provisional report No. 12, International Foundation for Science, pp. 476 - 481.
7. De Alwis, D.P. and Abeynayake, K. (1988). Aspetic Synthesis of Ectomycorrhizae of Dipterocarpus zeylanicus in F.S.P. Ng.(Ed.) Trees and Mycorrhizae, Proceedings of the Asian Seminar, Forest Research Institute, Malaysia, pp 215 - 227.
8. Abeynayake, K. (1989). Mycorrhizal Associations in Tropical Humid Forests in D.E.F. Ferdinandez and N. Ishwaran (Ed.) . The Ecology and Conservation of the Tropical Humid Forests of the Indomalayan Realm - Proceedings of Regional Workshop in Sri Lanka, Natural Resources, Energy and Science Authority, pp. 99 - 110.
9. Periyapperuma, K. and Abeynayake, K. (1989). A comparative study of some soil properties of a natural forests and a Pinus Plantation in Kottawa ( Galle), Sri Lanka Forester, Vol. XIX.pp47-52
10. Beling, A.S., Nissanka, W.G.A. and Abeynayake, K. (1992). Studies on the biological treatment of distillery waste. Journal of the National Science Council of Sri Lanka. Vol. 20, No. 2, 237 - 250.
11. Abeynayake, K. and Nissanka, W.G.A. (1992). Environmental profile of the Kalutara district, Central Envrionmental Authority, Ministry of Environment and Parliamentary Affairs, pp. 56.
12. Abeynayake, K., De Fonseka, R.N., Abeyratne, V and Sandhya Ramani (1995). A Survey of the Vegetation of Damila Mahaseya in Polonnaruwa.Vol. xxxviii, 127 - 140.
13. Krishanthi Abeywickrema, P.A.J. Yapa and Kanthi Abeynayake (1996). Laboratory studies on the use of Eichhornia crassipes in treatment systems for skim latex serum. Journal of the National Science Council of Sri Lanka, Vol. 24, (2), 51-62
14. Abeynayake,K. (1997). Plumbaginaceae in Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon. Vol. XI. pp. 382-387 ed.M.D.Dassanayake, Oxford and IBN publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
15. Ranwala, S.M.W. and Abeynayake, K. (1998). Forest plants of economic and medicinal value. March for Conservation, University of Colombo pp 62.
16. Senevratne,G.I.,Abeynayake K. and Lenagala, M.R.K.(1999). Floral diversity of Kaltuwawa-Labugama forest reserve in 1996.Regional Seminar on Forest of the Humid Tropics of South and South East Asia.National Science Foundation,pp 95-106.