Papuasia

Papuasia as defined by the WGSRPD

Papuasia is a botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD).[1] It lies in the Southwest Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia.

It comprises the following political entities:

References

  1. Brummitt, R.K. (2001). World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions: Edition 2 (PDF). International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases For Plant Sciences (TDWG). Retrieved 2006-11-27.
  2. "The Papuasian region". User Documentation for ANHSIR. Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, July 20, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.