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This category contains articles related to the native flora of tropical Asia. For the purposes of this category, "tropical Asia" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Asia-Tropical, namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It includes the following regions:
Note: The continent of Asia is not a geographical unit employed in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. The following categories should be used instead where the information is available: Category:Flora of temperate Asia; Category:Flora of tropical Asia
Medicinal plants of Asia by region (1 C) A. Flora of the Arabian Peninsula (8 C, 114 P) C. Flora of Central Asia (7 C, 250 P) E. Flora of Eastern Asia (6 C, 147 P) I.
Tropical Asia has an abundance of edible resources. [5] The following section involves various edible resource plants. Bananas are the most famous members of Musa with 21 species and edible subspecies. [5] Especially in the Mayan area, it is probably native to Southeast Asia and widely refined in the tropics. [5]
The fifth and final layer is the herb layer which is the forest floor. The forest floor is mainly bare except for various plants, mosses, and ferns. The forest floor is much more dense than above because of little sunlight and air movement. [2] Plant species native to the tropics found in tropical ecosystems are known as
Extent of the Paleotropical kingdom Gallery forest in Guinea Savanna in Burkina Faso Acacia erioloba in the Namib Desert Pandanus utilis Nepenthes villosa. The Paleotropical kingdom (Paleotropis) is a floristic kingdom composed of the tropical areas of Africa, Asia and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand), as proposed by Ronald Good and Armen Takhtajan.
The flora consists of many unique varieties of tropical plants. Blessed with a tropical climate and roughly 17,000 islands, Indonesia is the nation with the second highest biodiversity in the world. The flora of Indonesia reflects an intermingling of Asian, Australian and unique, Indonesian lineages. This is due to the geography of Indonesia ...
Malesia was first identified as a floristic region that included the Malay Peninsula, the Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, [1] based on a shared tropical flora derived mostly from Asia but also with numerous elements of the Antarctic flora, including many species in the southern conifer families Podocarpaceae and Araucariaceae.