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Ecological Regions With the Most Endemic Plants

According to the World Wildlife Fund, the following ecological regions have the highest percentage of endemic plants:

Ecological region Country
Madagascar moist forest Madagascar
New Caledonian moist forest New Caledonia
Hawaii moist forest United States
Madagascar dry forest Madagascar
New Caledonia dry forest New Caledonia
Hawaii dry forest United States
Mexican pine-oak forest Mexico, Guatemala
Fynbos South Africa
Kwongan heathland Australia


According to the World Wildlife Fund, the following ecological regions have the second-highest percentage of endemic plants:

Ecological region Country
Atlantic moist forest complex Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Northern Andean complex moist forest Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
Napo moist forest Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Guayanan highlands moist forest Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela
Eastern Arc mountain Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania
Congolian coastal forest Cameroon, Congo, equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria
Southwest Sri Lankan moist forest Sri Lanka
Sulawesi moist forest Indonesia
Southern Mexican dry forest Mexico
Klamath-Siskiyou coniferous forest United States
Cerrado savannah Bolivia, Brazil
Northern Andean paramo Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
Spiny woodland Madagascar

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