A Review on Some Selected Endemic and Threatened Plants of Odisha

Abstract

The coastal state of Odisha is blessed with rich biodiversity and possesses unique ecosystem. However, due to various factors like over exploitation of plants for medicinal and varied purposes, changing climatic conditions, anthropogenic activities and edaphic factors have caused a decline in the plant diversity. According to International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species also known as Red Data Book provides an inventory of global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species. In this review an attempt has been made to enumerate some of the selected rare, endemic and threatened plant species of Odisha. Further, the ethno-botanical significance of the chosen plant species have been discussed along with their distribution and present conservation status.