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India possesses a great variety of flora due to: (a) Varied relief of mountains, plains, plateaus, deserts. They all have their own different types of flora. (b) Different types of terrain and soils like alluvial, black, red, laterite support different types of vegetation and crops. (c) There is wide variety in climatic conditions like range of daily and annual temperature. (d) Varying amount of rainfall from 20 cm to 300 cm. (e) Duration of rainfall period also varies, e.g., two months in Jodhpur to about eight months in Tiruvanantapuram. (f) India stands tenth in the world and fourth in Asia in plant diversity. 47,000 species of plants have been described by the Botanical Survey of India,
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