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Western Polynesia, as treated here, comprises the oceanic archipelagoes principally of high islands lying east of the large islands of Eastern Melanesia (see section map 6 on index map Fig. 1.2, p. 9). They are floristically most closely related to Fiji, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia but have notably more impoverished floras than those of these Melanesian archipelagoes. Yet the Western Polynesian islands have definitely richer floras than those of the groups to the east.
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Mueller-Dombois, D., Fosberg, F.R. (1998). Western Polynesia. In: Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands. Ecological Studies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8686-3_7
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