Flora of India
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The flora of India is one of the richest in the world due to the wide range of climate,
Malabar and the Andaman Islands.[1]
Forests and wildlife resources
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In 1992, around 7,43,534 km2 of land in the country was under forests of which 92 percent belongs to the government. Only 22.7 percent is forested compared to the recommended 33 percent of the
babul-dominated thorn forest
of the central Deccan and western Gangetic plain. Pine, fir, spruce, cedar, larch and cypress are the timber-yielding plants widely prevalent throughout the hilly regions of India.
See also
References
- ISBN 9789351343578.
- ISBN 9788170223849.
- SPECIES CHECKLIST: Species Diversity in India; ENVIS Centre: Wildlife & Protected Areas (Secondary Database); Wildlife Institute of India (WII)
- ENVIS Centre: Wildlife & Protected Areas (Secondary Database); Wildlife Institute of India (WII)
- Free EBOOK: Special Habitats and Threatened Plants of India[permanent dead link]; Wildlife Institute of India (WII)
- ENVIS Centre on Conservation of Ecological Heritage and Sacred Sights of India Archived 12 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine; ENVIS; C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre is a Centre of Excellence of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flora of India.
- List of Indian medicinal plants on the Biodiversity of India website. A list of 932 commercially traded Indian medicinal plants (as per the ENVIS-FRLHT database) and their taxonomic status.
- Hooker, J. D. Flora of British India Volume 1
- Hooker, J. D. Flora of British India Volume 2
- Hooker, J. D. Flora of British India Volume 3
- Hooker, J. D. Flora of British India Volume 4
- Hooker, J. D. Flora of British India Volume 5
- Hooker, J. D. Flora of British India Volume 6
- Flora of Andhra Pradesh By Sharfudding Khan
- Flora of Andhra Pradesh by RD Reddy
- E-Flora of Kerala by N Sasidharan
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