Bryodiversity of Eastern Ghats (India)

Abstract

Eastern Ghats contribute considerably to both species richness and endemicity of the India. However, the forests of Eastern Ghats are comparatively understudied, under-explored and have received less consideration for conservation compared to the fairly better-known Western Ghats, the hot spot of biodiversity. Eventually, Eastern Ghats is left with inadequate data for several groups of organisms. The data insufficiency is prominent, particularly in the case of cryptogams, especially Bryophytes. In this chapter an attempt has been made to fill this lacuna to some extent by providing an updated checklist of bryophytes of southern most part of Eastern Ghats, comes under Tamil Nadu, based on several published old and recent sporadic reports along with available literature on web sources.