Table 3. Geographical elements of seed plants at the generic level in the flora of Laos.

Geographical elements at generic level	Number of genera	%*
1 Cosmopolitan	59	4.30
2 Pantropic	272	19.81
3 Tropical Asia and Tropical America disjunct	48	3.50
4 Old World Tropic	133	9.69
5 Tropical Asia to Tropical Australia	158	11.51
6 Tropical Asia to Tropical Africa	106	7.72
7 Tropical Asia	413	30.08
Tropical elements (types 2–7) in total	(1130)	(82.30)
8 North Temperate	59	4.30
9 East Asia and North America disjunct	37	2.69
10 Old World Temperate	26	1.89
11 Temperate Asia	2	0.15
12 Mediterranean, W Asia to C Asia	9	0.66
13 East Asia	44	3.20
14 SW China to N Indochina	5	0.36
Temperate elements (types 8–14) in total	(186)	(16.68)
15 Endemic to Laos	2	0.15
Total number of genera	1373	100.00

*The number of genera in each geographical element/ the number of genera of all geographical elements times 100.