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Nagaland, one of the smallest states of India with an area of 16,579 km2 is a mountainous state in northeast India. Botanical exploration of the state dates back to efforts done in 1837 by British botanists W. Griffith and subsequently by many other botanists, which is being continued till today. However, there is no detailed information on the flora of Nagaland to date as all these contributions by various botanists are scattered and fragmentary, concentrated either on one group, protected areas, district etc., except for Pteridophytes and Orchidaceae.
Recently, the Botanical Survey of India initiated work on a Flora of Nagaland and is working extensively to survey major parts of all the 11 districts of the state, which will take a few more years to finalize the complete flora. Hence, an attempt is made to list all the plants (Pteridophytes, Angiosperms & Gymnosperms) from published literature with updated nomenclatural changes at one place in the form of a checklist. This checklist on the Flora of Nagaland is meant to provide a preliminary source of information to botanists and is not intended as a comprehensive flora of the state.
