In various geographical regions, 16 types of forests are found in India that includes about 15000 types of flowering plants.
According to Forest Survey of India (2001) about 3287263 square km land is covered with forest that is 20.5% of the total area. Out of them tropical dry deciduous forest is 38.7% and tropical moist deciduous forest is 30.9%. Hence, these two types of forests form 69.6% of the total forest. In India, largest forest region is found in MP which is about 77,265 square km. In Rajasthan the dense forest area is about 16,367 square km which is 2.4% of the total forest area in India. It is mainly confined in Aravali hills.
