It embraces evergreen and semi-evergreen rainforests, moist deciduous monsoon forests, riparian forests, swamps and grasslands.
Evergreen rainforests are found in the Assam Valley, the foothills of the eastern Himalayas and the lower parts of the Naga Hills, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Manipur where the rain fall exceeds 2300 mm per annum.
The monsoon forests of the Andamans are dominated by Pterocarpus dalbergioides and Terminalia spp.
The northern portion of the narrow coastal plain between the WesternGhats and the Arabian Sea is known as the Konkan Coast or simply Konkan, and the southern portion is called Malabar or the Malabar Coast.
The evergreen Wayanad forests of Kerala mark the transition zone between the northern and southern ecoregions of the WesternGhats.
North of this region is the Kudremukh national park in the central region of Karnataka's westernghats.
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