Floral element
A flora element is the term used to describe types of flora that belong together due to a certain plant-geographical point of view. There are three types of floral elements:
- geographical floral element: according to today's distribution
- genetic floral element: according to the assumed area of origin.
- historical floral element: after the immigration period.
A floral element can relate to a flora realm, a florence zone or a flora area .
Europe belongs to the floral kingdom of the Holarctic . The florins and floras are structured as follows:
- meridional zone
- 1 western Mediterranean
- 2 central Mediterranean
- 3 Eastern Mediterranean
- 4 oriental
- submeridional zone
- 5 western sub-Mediterranean
- 6 Central Sub-Mediterranean
- 7 Eastern Sub-Mediterranean
- 8 pannonian
- 9 danubian
- 10 Pontic
- temperate zone
- 11 South Atlantic
- 12 south subatlantic
- 13 south-central European
- 14 Sarmatian
- 15 mid-Atlantic
- 16 north subatlantic
- 17 north-central European
- 18 North Atlantic
- 19 Scandinavian
- 20 Russian
- arctic zone
- 21 lappish
- across zones
- a alpine
- k Carpathian
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Wagenitz : Dictionary of Botany. The terms in their historical context. 2nd, expanded edition. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8274-1398-2 .