Table 4. Geographical elements across genera in the flora.

Distribution type	No. of genera (more than 20 species)	%	No. of genera (11–20 species)	%	No. of genera (6–10 species)	%	No. of genera (1–5 species)	%
1 Cosmopolitan	3	21.4	4	8.0	8	8.4	50	4.5
2 Pantropic	7	50.0	26	52.0	33	34.7	230	20.5
3 Tropical Asia and Tropical America disjunct	0	0.0	3	6.0	2	2.1	32	2.9
4 Old World Tropic	1	7.1	4	8.0	19	20.0	123	10.9
5 Tropical Asia to Tropical Australia	1	7.1	7	14.0	10	10.5	151	13.4
6 Tropical Asia to Tropical Africa	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	5.3	75	6.7
7 Tropical Asia	1	7.1	5	10.0	9	9.5	290	25.9
8 North Temperate	0	0.0	0	0.0	6	6.3	53	4.7
9 East Asia and North America disjunct	1	7.1	1	2.0	2	2.1	28	2.5
10 Old World Temperate	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	20	1.8
11 Temperate Asia	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	4	0.4
12 Mediterranean, W Asia to C Asia	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	0.2
13 Center Asia	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0
14 East Asia	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	1.1	47	4.2
15 Endemic to China	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	19	1.6
Total number of genera	14	100.0	50	100.0	95	100.0	1124	100.0