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Below are some Samoan plant names in alphabetical order in the Samoan language and their corresponding descriptions in English. [1] [2] [3] Many are used in traditional medicines in the Samoa Islands comprising Samoa and American Samoa .
Other animals, fungi and plants arrived via long-distance oceanic dispersal or island hopping from North America and South America. The bioregion has many plant species, including many endemics. There are about 200 endemic genera of plants. Wallenia, the largest endemic genus, has thirty species, and six other genera have ten or more species.
The Mariana Islands form an archipelago in the northwest of the Micronesian region. In 2012, Craig M. Costion and David H. Lorence compiled a list of Micronesian endemic plants, and assessed that the Mariana Islands had 22 endemic plant species (16 species in the southern Mariana Islands, of which 11 were isolated to Guam, and 5 species in the ...
List of islands by name. This is a list of islands by name. As this list is too long to be contained within this page, it has been divided into 26 different articles corresponding to their first letter, accessible from the table below.
Island's Name Island group(s) Country/Countries 83-42 Greenland, Denmark: A Nova: Beira Baixa islands Portugal: Abbasak: Persian Gulf Iran: Aberdeen: Georgian Bay, Ontario Canada Abner Cay: Bahamas Bahamas: Abruka: Gulf of Riga Estonia: Absecon New Jersey United States Abu Musa: Persian Gulf: Claimed by Iran and United Arab Emirates: Acheron
The following islands are some of the major islands in the island country Cuba: [10] Cuba (largest island in the Caribbean 104,556 km 2 (40,369 sq mi), 21°56′02″N 78°45′15″W. Canarreos Archipelago, 21°38′22″N 82°14′10″W. Isla de la Juventud (2nd largest island in Cuba at 2,200 km 2 (850 sq mi)), 21°45′N 82°51′W.
The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants ( ICNCP) is a guide to the rules and regulations for naming cultigens, plants whose origin or selection is primarily due to intentional human activity. [1] It is also known as Cultivated Plant Code. Cultigens under the purview of the ICNCP include cultivars, Groups ( cultivar groups ...
Island's name Island group(s) Country/Countries Saaremaa: West Estonian Archipelago; Baltic Sea Estonia: Saarnaki laid: Väinameri Sea Estonia: Saba: Lesser Antilles Netherlands Cayo Sabinal: Greater Antilles Cuba: Sable Nova Scotia Canada Sabrina: Balleny Islands: Ross Dependency, New Zealand Sabula Iowa United States Saddle: South Orkney ...