Ecological perspectives of endemic Flora of Adjara (Georgia)

In Ajara's floristic region of Georgia, 1837 species of vascular plants are distributed, of which 174 are endemic and divided into 5 groups of the Caucasus, Cholchis, Ajara-Lazeti, Georgia, and Ajara by geographic structure. According to life forms, 136 species are perennial grasses, 6 species are biennial, 6 annuals, 11 trees, 13 bushes, and two timbered lianas. They are distributed in the diverse ecological environment as coastal sand and dunes, coastal lowlands, freshwater ponds, inpeatbogs, on the humid, shaded slopes of the coast, in thermophilous and mesophilous broadleaf forests, Cholchismesophilous shrubs, hemixerophilicbiotops of cliffs, screes of the forests, biotopes of subalpine forest-valleys, and alpine valleys. Species endemic to cholchis are mainly distributed on shaded slopes and in the thermophilic-mesophilic forest belt, which must be a habitat of endemic origin for Colchis. Most of the endemics species of Adjara and Adjara-Lazeti (28%) are associated with floristic complexes of cliffs, scree, and supposedly, together with the cliffs, rocky outcrops, gorges, and another littoral-ecological environment, that can be considered as one of the ecotopes of the endemic flora of Adjara and Adjara-Lazeti.