India has a rich heritage of flora and fauna. Explain?
India undoubtedly has a rich heritage of flora and fauna as there are so many different species.
- It has around 47,000 plant species and about 15,000 flowering plants
- India also has 89,000 species of animals.
- India has 6% of the world's total flowering plants
- It occupies 10th place in world and 4th in Asia in plant diversity.
- India also consists of virgin vegetation(which is purely Indian) also known as endemic or indigenous species