Floral element

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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:

The florence zones and regions of Europe.
  • 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

  1. ^ 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 .