What is Flora? Explain the types.

Explanation

1. Flora is the document of all plant species in a given geographic area.
2. Flora consists of total number of plant species in an area and gives information about flowering season, fruiting season and distribution for the given geographic area.
3. It also provides details on rare and endemic species of that area. Eg: Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic by K.M. Matthew. Floras are categorized based on the scope and area covered.
Local .Flora :
It covers the limited areas, usually state, country, city or mountain range. Eg: Flora of Thiruvannamalai District by R. Vijaysankar, K. Ravikumar and P. Ravichandran.
Regional Flora :
It includes large geographical area or a botanical region. Eg: Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic by K.M. Metthew, (1983), Flora of Presidency of Madras by J.S. Gamble and C.E.C. Fisher (1915- 1936).
Continental Flora :
This flora covers the entire continent. Eg: Flora Europaea by D. A. Web (Ed).
Eectronic Floras (e floras) :
It is nothing but the digitized form of a flora published online. Eg: e - Flora China. This provides the information and also the identification tool.