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The Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests are diverse and species-rich, with a great diversity (of oaks and rhododendrons in particular) and many endemic species including plants of Indomalayan, Indochinese, Himalayan, Eastern Asiatic and even Gondwanan origin. The ecoregion has two broad forest types: evergreen and deciduous.
1.1 Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Most of Nepal is in the Indomalayan realm.
The ecoregion forms an area of temperate broadleaf forest covering 55,900 square kilometres (21,600 sq mi) in a narrow band between 1,500 to 2,600 metres (4,900 to 8,500 ft) elevation, extending from the Gandaki River gorge in Nepal, through Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir in northern India into parts of northern Pakistan.
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The main forest types include Dodonaea scrub, subtropical dry evergreen forests of Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, northern dry mixed deciduous forests, dry Siwalik sal (Shorea robusta) forests, moist mixed deciduous forests, subtropical broadleaf wet hill forests, northern tropical semi-evergreen forests, and northern tropical wet evergreen ...
Above the broadleaf forests, between 3,000 and 4,000 meters (9,800 and 13,100 ft), are temperate coniferous forests, likewise split by the Gandaki River. The western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests are found below treeline in northern Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and western Nepal.
Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests: Bhutan, India, Nepal: Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests: Myanmar: Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests: Myanmar: Jiang Nan subtropical evergreen forests: China: Kayah–Karen montane rain forests: Myanmar, Thailand: Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests: Bangladesh, India: Luang Prabang montane ...