The flora and vegetation of Nepal

Nepal is a Himalayan country, representing one of the world’s richest pockets in plant diversity. The presence of extreme ranges of altitude, climate and soil within a small geographical area has created a striking vertical zonation in natural vegetation and diversity in flora, with 75 vegetation types and 35 forest types. It is estimated that about 7,000 species of flowering plants exist in Nepal. So far, about 6,000 species of flowering plants and over 4,000 species of non-flowering plants have been enumerated from the country. About 5 percent of its flowering plants are endemic.
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