Name different types of vegetation found in India and describe the vegetation of high altitudes.
Different types of vegetation
in India include:
- Tropical Evergreen Forests: Regions
are hot and receive heavy rainfall throughout the year.
- Monsoon Forests: Monsoon
forests are also called as tropical deciduous forests. These include broad
leaved deciduous trees. These trees shed their leaves during dry season.
- Temperate Deciduous Forests:
These regions have cool winters and receive moderate rainfall.
- Coniferous Forests: Have cool
and short summers and cold and long winters.
- At higher altitudes type of
vegetation found is temperate grasslands which are generally at a height more than
3600 metres above sea level. This support alpine vegetation. Silver fir, junipers,
pines and birches are the common trees found in this type of forests.