With an estimated 3,000 wild plant species, Odisha is considered as a biodiversity rich state in India. While more than 100 species are listed as classified as threatened plants, only few are strictly endemic and their distribution restricted to the geographical boundary of Odisha State. Thorough scrutiny of published literature, study of herbarium specimens and based on primary field data collected by the authors, 17 vascular plant taxa belonging to 12 genera under 7 families are found to be endemic to Odisha. This includes 4 neo-endemic and 13 paleoendemic species of plants. Poaceae and Orchidaceae are the families having maximum number of endemic species, 7 and 4 species respectively. Notes on taxonomy and nomenclature of certain endemic plants of Odisha has been provided along with a complete list of 17 endemic taxa of Odisha with notes on their habit, habitat, distribution and conservation status of each of them.
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