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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 ...
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).
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 ...
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.
For the purposes of this category, "south-central Pacific" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD); that is, it is defined as constituting the following countries and islands: Cook Islands, Easter Island, Line Islands, the Marquesas, the Pitcairn Islands, the Society Islands ...
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.
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Where plants have leaves, stems, and reproductive organs, kelp have independently evolved blades, stipes, and sporangia. With radiometric dating and the measure Ma “unequivocal minimum constraint for total group Pinaceae ” vascular plants have been measured as having evolved around 419–454 Ma [ 13 ] while the ancestors of Laminariales are ...