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See also: List of codes used in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions and Category:Flora by distribution categories that follow the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions
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The following categorization scheme is the result of a project to have our flora geographic categories follow the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions:

Brummitt, R. K. (2001). World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions: Edition 2 (PDF). Biodiversity Information Standards—TDWG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-25. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
WGSRPD botanical continents

Using the categorization hierarchy[edit]

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Template#Categories for advice: "Try to limit the number of categories with common sense and judicious use of regional categories: a species found across Europe except for two or three countries is still accurately put simply in ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Europe."

  • If a species has a wide distribution that approximately matches the boundary of the largest scale geographic categories (e.g. continent or larger countries), then place it only in those top level geography categories and exclude it from child categories of those.
  • If a species has a more limited distribution but is still best described by regional boundaries (e.g. "Flora of Northern Europe" or "Flora of the Southeastern United States"), then place it only in those regional geography categories and exclude it from child categories of those. However, if the distribution extends just beyond the regional category's demarcation, a few additional categories may be required (e.g. some species occur in the Southeastern United States but also occur in Texas, so it would be categorized in both the regional Southeastern United States category and the Flora of Texas category).
  • If a species' distribution doesn't sufficiently match a regional category's boundary either because it is in too few of its subdivisions (states or small countries) or it straddles the boundary between two regional categories (e.g. a species present in a few countries in southern Northern Europe and northern Southwestern Europe and cannot accurately be described as being a member of either without breaking it down into just the countries it is found in), then choose the categories that are among the finest scale (states, provinces, and smaller countries. Species endemic to a state, province, or smaller country (those not subdivided) should only be categorized in these but the finest scale of categories is not restricted to endemic species.
What taxa do I include in these categories?

Each category should describe its geographical circumscription (boundaries) and also note that it is limited to flora that are native (not naturalized, introduced, or invasive) in that region. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included (species, subspecies, varieties). Higher taxa are included only if endemic (for example, a genus endemic to Western Australia could have the genus article itself included in that category). In the case of monotypic taxa, redirects should be categorized in exactly the same way.

Important differences from the usual geographical definitions

To link to explanations of the WGSRPD definitions, the following can be used:

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Europe[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Northern Europe[edit]

Northern Europe

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Middle Europe[edit]

Central Europe

Called Middle Europe rather than Central Europe in WGSRPD.

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Southwestern Europe[edit]

Southwestern Europe

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Southeastern Europe[edit]

Southeastern Europe

Note that the WGSRPD does not include the eastern Aegean islands in Europe.

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Eastern Europe[edit]

Eastern Europe (with European Russia)
Eastern Europe with Russian federal divisions shown
  (green) Eastern Europe: Belarus, Estonia, Kaliningrad, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Crimea, Moldova (not shown)
  (orange) Northwest European Russia
  (red) Central European Russia
  (yellow) South European Russia
  (dark blue) North European Russia
  (violet) East European Russia

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Africa[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of North Africa[edit]

North Africa

Called Northern Africa in the WGSRPD.

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Macaronesia[edit]

Macaronesia

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of West Tropical Africa[edit]

West Tropical Africa

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa[edit]

West-Central Tropical Africa

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa[edit]

Northeast Tropical Africa

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of East Tropical Africa[edit]

East Tropical Africa

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of South Tropical Africa[edit]

South Tropical Africa

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Southern Africa[edit]

Southern Africa; see text opposite for the key to the regions

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the middle Atlantic Ocean[edit]

Middle Atlantic Ocean

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Western Indian Ocean[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of temperate Asia[edit]

Called Asia-Temperate in the WGSRPD.

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Siberia[edit]

Siberia (shaded region), including West Siberia (pink)

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Russian Far East[edit]

Russian Far East

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Central Asia[edit]

Central Asia

Called Middle Asia by the WGSRPD.

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Caucasus[edit]

The Caucasus: North Caucasus (orange) and South Caucasus (green); remainder of Russia in white

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Western Asia[edit]

Western Asia

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Arabian Peninsula[edit]

Arabian Peninsula

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of China[edit]

  (orange) Xinjiang
  (pink) Tibet
  (brown) Qinghai
  (yellow) Inner Mongolia
  (purple) Manchuria
  (blue) North-Central China
  (red) South-Central China
  (light green) Southeast China
  (dark green) Hainan

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Mongolia[edit]

Mongolia

(N.B. No subcategories, just Mongolia.)

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Eastern Asia[edit]

East Asia

Note that the WGSRPD Eastern Asia is very different from the usual meaning of "East Asia", being a much smaller region.

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of tropical Asia[edit]

Called Asia-Tropical in the WGSRPD.

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Indian subcontinent[edit]

The Indian subcontinent:
  (yellow) Pakistan
  (pink) West Himalaya
  (orange) Nepal
  (red) East Himalaya
  (green) India
  (blue) Bangladesh
  (violet) Assam (region)
  (brown) Sri Lanka
Oval: Laccadive Islands (Lakshadweep)
Not shown: Maldives

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Indo-China[edit]

Indo-China

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Malesia[edit]

Malesia

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Papuasia[edit]

Papuasia

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Australasia[edit]

Note that Australasia is limited to Australia and New Zealand, plus outlying islands, and thus differs from most geographical schemes, which include many more areas.

Australasia, consisting of Australia (darker green) and New Zealand (lighter green)

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Australia[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of New Zealand[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Pacific[edit]

Pacific botanical continent

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Southwestern Pacific[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the south-central Pacific[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Northwestern Pacific[edit]

Flora of the north-central Pacific[edit]

(The regional category is not needed as there is only one area within it.)

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Northern America[edit]

Note that this excludes Central America and the Caribbean.

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Subarctic America[edit]

Subarctic America

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Western Canada[edit]

Western Canada

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Eastern Canada[edit]

Eastern Canada

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Northwestern United States[edit]

Northwestern United States

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the North-Central United States[edit]

North-Central United States

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Northeastern United States[edit]

Northeastern United States

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Southwestern United States[edit]

Southwestern United States

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the South-Central United States[edit]

South-Central United States

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Southeastern United States[edit]

Southeastern United States

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Mexico[edit]

  (purple) Northwestern Mexico
  (green) Northeastern Mexico
  (teal) Southwestern Mexico
  (blue) Central Mexico
  (maroon) Veracruz
  (olive yellow) Southeastern Mexico
Not shown: Mexican Pacific islands (Guadalupe Island, Rocas Alijos, Revillagigedo Islands

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Southern America[edit]

WGSRPD Southern America with its regions

Note that this includes Central America and the Caribbean.

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Central America[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Caribbean[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of northern South America[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of western South America[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of Brazil[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of southern South America[edit]

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of the Antarctic[edit]

WGSRPD Antarctic: Subantarctic Islands between the two blue lines; Antarctic Continent = Antarctica inside the inner blue line

‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Flora of subantarctic islands[edit]

Flora of the Antarctic Continent[edit]

(The regional category is not needed as there is only one area contained within it.)

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