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  2. Category:Flora of the Pacific - Wikipedia

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    For the purposes of this category, "Pacific" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". In other non−WGSRPD systems the Pacific botanical continent flora is also within the geographic continent Oceania and the biogeographic Oceanian ...

  3. Category:Flora of Oceania - Wikipedia

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    Plants portal; Flora of Oceania — the geographic continental region centred on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean and of Australasia. The main system used for categorizing plants is the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). Oceania is not a continent used in that system, but roughly corresponds to the ...

  4. Marine botany - Wikipedia

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    Marine botany is the study of flowering vascular plant species and marine algae that live in shallow seawater of the open ocean and the littoral zone, along shorelines of the intertidal zone, coastal wetlands, and low-salinity brackish water of estuaries. It is a branch of marine biology and botany.

  5. Category:Oceanian realm flora - Wikipedia

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    Carnivorous plants of the Pacific (8 P) E. Flora of Easter Island (6 P) F. Flora of the Federated States of Micronesia (1 C, 3 P) Flora of Fiji (2 C, 81 P)

  6. Category:Trees of the Pacific - Wikipedia

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    The tree flora of the Pacific — in the Oceanian realm.; For the purposes of this category, "Pacific" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), in which it is considered one of nine botanical continents (Europe, Africa, Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical, Australasia, Pacific, Northern America, Southern America, Antarctic).

  7. South American Pacific mangroves - Wikipedia

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    A 2014 book proposed a distinction between the Chocoan and Equatorial-Pacific mangrove forests. [13] Endemic species such as Avicennia tonduzi and Avicennia bicolor are found in the Pacific mangroves. [12] More than 70% of Colombia's mangroves grow on the Pacific coast. They form tall, well-structured forests with trees up to 30 metres (98 ft ...

  8. Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia - Wikipedia

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    Pandanus (Pandanus spp.) are very important cultivated plants in the Pacific, second only in importance and pervasiveness to coconuts. Every part of the plant is utilized, including for food, building materials, traditional medicine, and fiber and weaving materials in various cultures in Austronesia.

  9. Scaevola taccada - Wikipedia

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    Scaevola taccada, also known as beach cabbage, sea lettuce, or beach naupaka, is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae found in mangrove swamps and rocky or sandy coastal locations in the tropical areas of the Indo-Pacific.