page_title: Phytogeography
section_title: Floristic regions
hierarchical_section_title: Phytogeography / Floristic regions
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Florenreiche English: floristic regions
context_page_description: Phytogeography or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species and their influence on the earth's surface. Phytogeography is concerned with all aspects of plant distribution, from the controls on the distribution of individual species ranges to the factors that govern the composition of entire communities and floras. Geobotany, by contrast, focuses on the geographic space's influence on plants.
context_section_description: Floristics is a study of the flora of some territory or area. Traditional phytogeography concerns itself largely with floristics and floristic classification, see floristic province.
  China has been a focus to botanist for its rich biota as it holds the record for the earliest known angiosperm megafossil.
caption: Good (1947) floristic kingdoms
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