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The flora of Nepal is one of the richest in the world due to the diverse climate, topology and geography of the country. Research undertaken in the late 1970s and early 1980s documented 5067 species of which 5041 were angiosperms and the remaining 26 species were gymnosperms. [1] The Terai area has hardwood, bamboo, palm, and sal trees. [2]
Flora of Nepal. Vol. 3 Vol. 3. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. ISBN 9781906129798. OCLC 838869663. Akiyama, Shinobu (2004). Proceedings of the Fifth and Sixth Symposia on Collection Building and Natural History Studies in Asia and the Pacific Rim. National Science Museum. OCLC 767540256. Akiyama, Shinobu; Ōba, Hideaki (2001).
[2] [3] [4] The species is widely distributed in mountains areas in the Himalayas (India, Nepal, Pakistan) and parts of China (Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan). [5] [6] Allium przewalskianum has narrow bulbs up to 10 mm across. Scape is up to 40 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are ...
Nepal portal; This category includes the native flora of Nepal.Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. In accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), this category is included within the larger region of the Indian subcontinent in Category:Flora of the Indian subcontinent
Rhododendron arboreum, the tree rhododendron, [1] is an evergreen shrub or small tree with a showy display of bright red flowers. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Thailand. It is the national flower of Nepal. In India it is the state tree of Uttarakhand and state flower of Nagaland.
The falls are spatulate (spoon shaped), [2] or obovate, [8] between 3.5–5 cm (1–2 in) long and 1.5 cm wide. [2] [3] [4] They have ovate blades. [3] [16] In the centre of the petal is a dense beard of white hairs, with yellow, [2] [4] [7] or orange tips. [3] [5] The upright standards are oblanceolate, [2] elliptic, [8] or obovate shaped, [3 ...
Meconopsis napaulensis, the Nepal poppy or satin poppy, is a plant of the family Papaveraceae. The plant contains beta-carbolines , which (in doses high enough) act as a psychedelic drug . However, its phytochemistry remains predominantly unstudied.
Its location on the south slope of the Himalaya allows the intermingling of plants and animals from the Indomalayan and Palearctic biogeographic realms. The most dominant trees in this ecoregion and every main forest types in ecoregion is Pinus roxburghii , Pinus hwangshanensis , Juniperus tibetica , Tsuga dumosa and Taxus sumatrana .