in the northern section and southern fringes. Moist deciduous forests occur in Odisha and Nallamala in Andhra Pradesh–Telangana. Dry deciduous, dry savannah and scrub forests occur across the range. Dry evergreen forests are limited to south Andhra Pradesh, and north Tamil Nadu.

The region is home to more than 4500 species of angiosperms, which account for 13% of the flowering plant species in India. About 166 species of flowering plants are endemic