Papuasia

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Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD).^[1] It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia.

It comprises the following geographic and political entities:

Aru Islands (Indonesia; treated as part of Western New Guinea in the Scheme)
New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea
- Western New Guinea (Indonesia)
Solomon Islands (archipelago)
- Bougainville
- Solomon Islands (excluding the Santa Cruz Islands)^[2]

References

^ 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.
^ "The Papuasian region". User Documentation for ANHSIR. Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 1 May 2014.

[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.

[ANHSIR-2] "The Papuasian region". User Documentation for ANHSIR. Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 1 May 2014.

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