Category:Flora of Melanesia
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The Flora of Melanesia includes the native plants on the islands within region of Melanesia, a geographic subregion of Oceania, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
- The Melanesian flora is a biogeographic subregion of the Australasian realm.
- Melanesia is southwest of the adjacent Oceanian realm (and its subregions of Polynesia and Micronesia).
- The biogeographic Oceanian realm and Australasian realm are both within geographic Oceania.
NOTE: The region of Melanesia is not a geographical unit employed in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Its flora is divided between the following regions, which should be used instead where the information is available:
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