The rapid decline of world’s tropical forest is one of today’s pressing global environmental problems. One of the major threats to tropical forest biodiversity is habitat loss leading to depletion and the concomitant loss of forest cover. The biodiversity components of the Shervarayan hills as a whole are endangered owing to mining activities. Species base line information is required for this ecosystem to plan for any forest conservation program. Thus the present study is focused on the list of vascular species, habitats and their Red listed status of an endangered fragile Shola vegetation found in and around bauxite mining in Shervarayan hills, Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu. From the present study 225 species of vascular plants are reported, among them about 24 species are Pteridophytes, One Gymnosperm and 210 Angiosperms.
