FLORA AND FAUNA OF

MIZORAM AND TRIPURA

By – Adarsh Bharti
10 B
Roll – 36
Podar International School
STATE SYMBOLS OF MIZOR AM -
T H E O F F I C I A L S TAT E S Y M B O LS R E P R E S E N T T H E C U LT U R A L H E R I TA G E A N D N AT U R A L T R E A S U R E S O F M I Z O R A M.
FLORA OF MIZORAM

The State has diverse plant species. However, no systematic survey and documentation of the flora
of Mizoram has yet been carried out.
The State has diverse plant species. However, no systematic survey
and documentation of the flora of Mizoram has yet been carried out.
Occasional survey and some botanical collections had been carried out by
A.T. Gage 1899, N.E. Parry 1927, Rev. W.J.L. Wenger 1932, Kajilal 1934,
Fisher 1938, Deb & Dutta 1987, Botanical Survey of India (BSI) Shillong.
The plant materials collected by them were deposited scantily in the
herberia of KEW (London), CNH (Howrah) and Assam (Shillong). Dr. H.
Lalramnghinglova, Botanist, Environment & Forests Department, Govt. of
Mizoram, have had started botanical collections since 1991 and deposited
around 400 mounted specimens in a small herbarium of the State Forest
Department established for the first time in Mizoram and published
Handbook of Forest Trees of Mizoram, Forest Resources of Mizoram 1997,
etc. The Botanical Survey of India had undertaken the flora of Mizoram as
one of its project since 1989 and the volume is expected to come out
 FAUNA OF
MIZORAM

Mizoram is flanked by Myanmar on the east and south, and Bangladesh on the west; in
terms of biodiversity habitat, it falls within the Indo-Malayan bio-geographic region.
However, according to Biogeographic Classification of India prepared by Wildlife
Institute of India, Mizoram falls wihtin the North East Biogeographic Zones. Perched on
the high hills of the eastern corner of India, Mizoram is a home of rich variety of flora
and fauna distributed in its lush green, diversified terrain with steep slopes separated by
rivers rolling towards north and south. With its deep gorges between the hills and falls,
green valleys and streams, Mizoram is blessed with natural beauty.
SIMILARITY OF MIZORAM WITH TRIPURA

As Mizoram and Tripura exists at same part of the country which is

North-East has a similar kind of biodiversity of flora and fauna.
Which also makes Tripura rich in its biodiversity. Not only tripura
but also with other North-Eastern states of India
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