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The Flora of Southeast Asia. NOTE: Southeast Asia is not a geographical unit employed in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Its flora is divided between two regions, which should be used instead where the information is available: Category:Flora of Indo-China; Category:Flora of Malesia
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340 [a] flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae.The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east, south and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America.
For the purposes of this category, "South America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Southern America, namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It includes the following regions: Flora of Central America; Flora of the Caribbean; Flora of northern South ...
Proteaceae are mainly a Southern Hemisphere family, with its main centres of diversity in Australia and South Africa. It also occurs in Central Africa, South and Central America, India, eastern and south eastern Asia, and Oceania. [8] Only two species are known from New Zealand, although fossil pollen evidence suggests there were more ...
Dipterocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants with 22 genera [3] and about 695 known species [4] of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. [5] [6] The greatest diversity of Dipterocarpaceae occurs in ...
S. macrocarpon is a tropical perennial plant that is closely related to the eggplant. [1] S. macrocarpon originated from West Africa, but is now widely distributed in Central and East Africa. The plant also grows in the Caribbean, South America, and some parts of Southeast Asia. [2]
Persea americana flowers. The species of Persea have a disjunct distribution, with about 70 Neotropical species, ranging from Brazil and Chile in South America to Central America and Mexico, the Caribbean, and the southeastern United States; a single species, P. indica, endemic to Madeira and the Canary Islands off northwest Africa; and 80 species inhabiting east and southeast Asia.
The island of Borneo is located on the Sunda Shelf, which is an extensive region in Southeast Asia of immense importance in terms of biodiversity, biogeography and phylogeography of fauna and flora that had attracted Alfred Russel Wallace and other biologists from all over the world.