| Name | Karthikeyan, Saravanam | 
| Date of birth | 1940 | 
| Date of death | 2022 | 
| Remarks | Eponymy: Cyperus karthikeyanii Wad. Khan & Lakshmin. (2008). [author note: Floristics, bibliography, botanical history; Inventory of Ind. Fl; selected publ. (first author): An annotated bibliography of Taxonomic Botany of Peninsular India 1959-1978 (1981); Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae (1989)] [collector note: BSI, CAL, MH] Example of Names published: Alloteropsis semialata var. viatica (Griff.) J.L.Ellis & Karthik. in J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 70(3): 594 (1974). | 
| ASA Botanist ID | 125522 botanist | 
| GUID | http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/b8002ac2-01a4-4d46-a866-d4f8c33966bf | 
| Variant name | Saravanam Karthikeyan | 
| Author name | Karthikeyan | 
| B & P Author Abbrev. | Karth. | 
| Standard/Label Name | S. Karthikeyan | 
| Full Name | Karthikeyan, Saravanam | 
| Geography Author | India | 
| Geography Collector | India | 
| Specialty Author | Spermatophytes | 
| Specialty Collector | Phanerogams | 
| Citation as Author | Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; P. Lakshminarasimhan (IBLO at Kew); Death year from: Subir Bandyopadhyay & Gopal Krishna (CAL) | 
| Citation as Collector | Index Herbariorum, ed. 8; pers. comm. from the author | 
