Fernandezian Region
Floristic Region in Chile
The Fernandezian Region is a Floristic Region which includes two island groups, the Juan Fernández Islands and Desventuradas Islands archipelagos, that lie in the South Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Chile. It is in the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, but often also included within the Neotropical Kingdom.
Endemic plant families include Lactoridaceae, with many endemic plant and animal genera are found here too.
References
- Takhtajan, Armen, 1986. Floristic Regions of the World. (translated by T.J. Crovello & A. Cronquist). University of California Press, Berkeley.
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Floristic regions of the world
- Circumboreal
- Eastern Asiatic
- North American Atlantic
- Rocky Mountain
- Macaronesian
- Mediterranean
- Saharo-Arabian
- Irano-Turanian
- Madrean
- Guineo-Congolian
- Usambara-Zululand
- Sudano-Zambezian
- Karoo-Namib
- St. Helena and Ascension
- Madagascan
- Indian
- Indochinese
- Malesian
- Papuasian
- Fijian
- Polynesian
- Hawaiian
- Neocaledonian
- Caribbean
- Guayana Highlands
- Amazonian
- Brazilian
- Andean
- Northeast
- Southwest
- Central Australian or Eremaean
- Fernandezian
- Chile-Patagonian
- South Subantarctic Islands
- Neozeylandic
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