Contents: I. Introduction. 1. Brief history of threatened plants list. 2. Background of the programme. II. Methodology: 3. Area covered. 4. Record collation and fieldwork. 5. Data sources. 6. Scrutining red list plants. 7. Nature of the categories. 8. Nature of the criteria. 9. Guidelines for determining the extinct (EX and EW) categories. 10. Guidelines for determining the critically endangered (CR) category. 11. Guidelines for determining the endangered (EN) category. 12. Guidelines for determining the Vulnerable (VU) category. 13. Guidelines for determining the near threatened (NT) category. 14. Guidelines for determining the not evaluated (NE) category. 15. Guidelines for determining the data deficient (DD) category. 16. Guidelines for application of IUCN criteria. III. Explanation and arrangement of the text. References. Species profile. Recommendations. List of technical experts and information providers. Index to botanical names.
