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Old 19-05-2003, 08:56 PM
Leo Michels
 
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(Ted Shoemaker) wrote:

Can someone please tell me how many species of plants are estimated to
be living today?

270 000 (estimated by WCMC)


Can that statistic be further broken down, either by phylum or by
geography (how many are native to each continent, for example)?

I'm sure these questions are simple to some of you, but I'm not a
plant expert.

You may look for this book:

Brian Groombridge and Martin D. Jenkins:
World Atlas of Biodiversity
UNEP-WCMC
ISBN 0-520-23668-8
University of California Press

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
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