The present paper focuses on the phytosociological survey of climbers and lianas in North Andaman and enlists the plant species with their habitat and forest types they belong. The study area showed seven important forest types viz., evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist deciduous, dry deciduous, mangrove, littoral and degraded. The survey in this islands encountered 147 herbaceous climbers and 106 woody climbers from all the forest types of North Andaman, covering 49 families. In dicotyledons,

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... are 39 families containing 121 genera and 218 species. In monocotyledons, there are 7 families containing 12 genera and 25 species. Papilionaceae and Dioscoreaceae, among dicot and monocot are found to be dominant family respectively. It also provides a data base on North Andaman plant species which can be utilized in the context of species conservation and future inventories.