Flora

About 5,833 taxa of flowering plants under 213 families and 1,496 genera have been enumerated (Koba et al. 1994). The largest families are Asteraceae (111 genera, 400 species), Poaceae (113 genera, 350 species), Orchidaceae (90 genera, 315 species) and Fabaceae (90 genera, 300 species). Of the total flowering flora only 5 percent are endemic to Nepal and about 30 percent are endemic to the Himalaya. Over 4,064 species of non-flowering plants that include algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes and pteridophytes have been enumerated.

Glance of Nepal