This is a list of plants from India that have been considered rare, threatened, endangered, or extinct by the
IUCN
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ...
or the
Botanical Survey of India
Botanical Survey of India (BSI) located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was founded on 13 February 1890, is Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change's organization for survey, research and conservation of plan ...
. Some of the regions mentioned may refer to old and outdated state or regional boundaries and may need to be interpreted with caution.
The BSI status symbols used are extinct (Ex), extinct/endangered (Ex/E), endangered (E), vulnerable (V), rare (R) and indeterminate (I). Two letter state identification codes are used (see
ISO 3166-2:IN) and WG stands for
Western Ghats. The IUCN status is indicated where available.
Charophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Marchantiopsida
Bryopsida
Takakiopsida
Lycopodiopsida
Polypodiopsida
Cycadopsida
Pinopsida
Gnetopsida
Magnoliopsida
Liliopsida
See also
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List of least concern plants
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List of endangered plants
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 3654 endangered plant species. 17% of all evaluated plant species are listed as endangered.
The IUCN also lists 99 subspecies and 101 varieties as endangered ...
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List of plants that are extinct in the wild
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List of recently extinct plants
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List of extinct animals of India
This is a list of extinct animals of India.
Prehistoric Extinctions:
* Asian straight-tusked elephant (''Palaeoloxodon namadicus'') Late Pleistocene
*'' Stegodon namadicus'' Late Pleistocene
*''Hexaprotodon'' (Indian hippopotamus) Late Pleist ...
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List of endangered animals in India
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Lists of extinct species
This page features lists of extinct species, organisms that have become extinct, either in the wild or completely disappeared from Earth.
In actual theoretical practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last fifty years of cu ...
References
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External links
Endemic and Threatened taxa, Botanical Survey of India
Threatened
Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of ''critical depensat ...
Plants,India