Venkatachalam Sampath Kumar (born 1966), Indian botanist.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England (in 2014)

Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Botanic Garden, Howrah – 711 103, West Bengal, India (in 2016)

IPNI standard form: V.S.Kumar

Taxon names authored

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• 3 taxon names authored by Venkatachalam Sampath Kumar

Publications

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• Kumar, V.S. 2006. New combinations and new names in Asian Magnoliaceae. Kew Bulletin 61(2): 183-186. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Kumar, V.S. & Karthikeyan, S. 2014. Notes on nomenclature and distribution of some taxa of Piper L. (Piperaceae). Phytotaxa 167(2): 209–211. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.167.2.9 Reference page. 
• Kumar, V.S. & Karthikeyan, S. 2015. Nomenclatural notes on a few flowering plants of India. V. Phytodiversity 2: 5–7. Reference page. 
• Kumar, V.S. & Chakrabarty, T. 2016. Teucrium tomentosum B.Heyne ex Benth. (Lamiaceae), an unnoticed later homonym for almost two centuries. Phytotaxa 243(2): 197–198. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.243.2.13 Reference page. 
• Chakrabarty, T. & Sampath Kumar, V. 2017. Terminalia elliptica (Combretaceae) is not conspecific with T. arjuna. Phytotaxa 295(3): 297–300. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.295.3.12 Reference page. 
• Turner, I.M. & Kumar, V.S. 2018. Flora of Singapore precursors, 4. A summary of scandent Psychotria (Rubiaceae) in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. Phytotaxa 361(2): 183–197. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.361.2.4 ResearchGate Reference page.