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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
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 ...
Lauraceae, or the laurels, is a plant family that includes the true laurel and its closest relatives. This family comprises about 2850 known species in about 45 genera worldwide. [4] They are dicotyledons, and occur mainly in warm temperate and tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America.
In particular, Asia is divided into two botanical continents; 5 Australasia consists only of Australia and New Zealand and small outlying islands; most of the islands in the Pacific Ocean are allocated to 6 Pacific; and the division of the Americas into 7 Northern America and 8 Southern America differs from the traditional North America and ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The list includes individual plant species identified by their common names as well as larger formal and informal botanical categories which include at least some domesticated individuals. Plants in this list are grouped by the original or primary purpose for which they were domesticated, and subsequently by botanical or culinary categories.