Check List of Flora of Nagaland (India). 2017. (Flora of India. Series 2: State Flora). 20 col. pls. III, 196 p. 4to. Hardcover.

Nagaland, one of the smallest states of India with an area of 16,579 sq.km is a mountainous state in northeast India which shares its borders with Assam in the west, Arunachal Pradesh and part of Assam in the north, Manipur in the south and Myanmar in the east. Owing to its varied topography from the foothills with tropical climate to the alpine zone of Mt. Saramati (3841 m) coupled with high rainfall, the state harbours diverse and rich vegetation. The forests cover of the state is 12,966 km2, which is 78.21% of the states geographical area (FSI: 2015).

Botanical exploration of the state dates back to 1837 by British botanists W. Griffith and subsequently by many other botanists and is being continued till today. However, there is no detailed information on the flora of Nagaland as on 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 Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong has initiated the work on Flora of Nagaland and is state, which will take few more years to finalize the complete flora. Hence, an attempt is made to list all the plants (Pteridophytes, Angiospersm and Gymnosperms) from published literatures, Assam Herbarium and Nagaland University Herbarium with updated nomenclatural changes at one place in the form of a checklist.

This checklist on Flora of Nagaland is meant to provide a preliminary source of information to Botanists and is in no means a comprehensive and ultimate flora of the state.