www.ijcrt.org © 2022 IJCRT | Volume 10, Issue 4 April 2022 | ISSN: 2320-2882 IJCRT2204220 International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT) www.ijcrt.org b889 A REVIEW ON FLORISTIC ACCOUNTS OF MONOCOTYLEDONS DIVERSITY OF GUJARAT, INDIA Vishalgiri Gauswami 1 , Bhoomi Prajapati 2 , Hitesh Solanki 3 1 Student, 2 Research Scholar, 3 Professor, 1 Department of Botany, Bioinformatics and climate change impacts management, 1 Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India Abstract- The world’s Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life i.e., species, ecosystem, the biome of the planet. It represents the diversity and abundance of life expressed at the genetic, population, species and ecosystem levels in terrestrial, marine, cultivated and natural habitats. Biodiversity is of great importance for ecological, economic and for ecosystem stability. The information obtained in a few surveys in the field of floristic; also, the taxonomical study gives us knowledge about the past species, which is supportive of presenting studies and research. Floristic diversity studies have acquired great importance in developing countries to enhance their plant wealth. Floristic diversity is enormously important for the maintenance of rare, endangered and threatened plant species. Floristic studies are taxonomic studies of flora or of a significant segment of flora of a given area. This review focuses on the monocot diversity of Gujarat, India. Keywords: Plants, Taxonomy, Diversity, Floristic, Biodiversity Introduction Biodiversity means the biological variety and variability of living organisms on earth. The variation among the species is extremely helpful in the growth of the agriculture industry, medicine industry and for future research purposes (Knopf, 1992). Total Angiospermic plants recorded are 2,205 by different authors from Gujarat, which contributes to about 12.5% of the National Diversity of Angiospermic Plants (Glimpses of Forests in Gujarat, 2011). Taxonomy is a grouping and classifying organisms according to their physical characteristics and homology in a very scientific way. Such that the individuals within the group share identical characteristics and have common ancestors is called as taxonomy. Floristic studies are taxonomic studies of a flora, or of a significant segment of the total flora of a given area. It means preparing a whole list of plants that constitutes a vegetation community (George, 1974). The most important part of any floristic survey is the correct scientific identification of the plant wealth found in that particular area (Jasrai et al., 2014). Floristic studies have acquired great importance in recent times in response to the need of developing and underdeveloped countries to assess their plant wealth. The appearance and existence of any plant community are entirely subject to its floristic composition and, therefore, the organic structure spectrum of its individual components (Thakur, 2012).