Papuasia

This article is about the biogeographical region. For the island, see Papua.

Papuasia as defined by the WGSRPD

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

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