Advances in Zoology and Botany 9(1): 28-36, 2021 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/azb.2021.090105 Wetland Flora of Gorewada International Biopark, Nagpur, India Rahul B. Kamble 1,* , Sandeep G. Hate 2 , Alka Chaturvedi 3 1 Department of Botany, Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur, India 2 Department of Botany, D.R.B. Sindhu Mahavidyalaya, Nagpur, India 3 P. G. Department of Botany, University Campus, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India Received June 13, 2020; Revised October 23, 2020; Accepted December 3, 2020 Cite This Paper in the following Citation Styles (a): [1] Rahul B. Kamble, Sandeep G. Hate, Alka Chaturvedi , "Wetland Flora of Gorewada International Biopark, Nagpur, India," Advances in Zoology and Botany, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 28 - 36, 2021. DOI: 10.13189/azb.2021.090105. (b): Rahul B. Kamble, Sandeep G. Hate, Alka Chaturvedi (2021). Wetland Flora of Gorewada International Biopark, Nagpur, India. Advances in Zoology and Botany, 9(1), 28 - 36. DOI: 10.13189/azb.2021.090105. Copyright©2021 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract Gorewada reservoir and adjacent area (1885 Ha) now converted into International Biopark abodes a variety of plant community to its credit. A study has been carried out to elucidate the aquatic flora with diverse plant wealth, indicator plants and their ecological status in wetlands of Gorewada catchment area.114 plants species with 33 families have been identified from the Gorewada wet land area. 67 species belong to dicotyledons and 47 are monocotyledons. Keywords Gorewada International Biopark, Nagpur, Wetland Flora, Indicator Categories 1. Introduction Biodiversity accomplishes all vital requirements of organisms to complete their life cycle and amongst humans indirectly or directly dependent on both terrestrial as well as aquatic biodiversity, as both biodiversities provides natural resources in all ways to humans like cultural, economic, aesthetic, educational and scientific etc. Biodiversity covers all organisms like microorganism, plants and animals along with its all diverse genetic variations in species, varieties and populations in different habitats, ecosystems and in their natural areas, and its groups increases richness in natural environment [1]. Wetlands are vital parts of the hydrological cycle, highly productive, support exceptionally large biological diversity and provide a wide range of ecosystem services, such as food and fibre; waste assimilation; water purification; flood mitigation; erosion control; groundwater recharge; microclimate regulation; enhance aesthetics of the landscape; support many significant recreational, social and cultural activities, besides being a part of our cultural heritage [2]. The composition of a plant community is determined by a complex interaction of several biotic as well as abiotic factors including climate, soil type, position in the landscape and competition between plant species. Amongst which wetlands are the very important aquatic ecosystem, which maintains the balance in environment. Wetlands have seasonal variation in its floristic composition. Consequently, botanical explorations of wetland plants are necessary to gain more knowledge on species richness as well as their geographical distribution. Works on floristic studies of documentation of diversity of aquatic plants and wetlands flora in various water reservoirs and wetland areas of different states of India were carried out by many workers [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. Besides these there are several researchers from Maharashtra state and its various districts and regions, explored the aquatic and wet lands plants diversity [11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21, 22].