Table 6. Comparison of geographical elements of seed plants at the generic level.
| Compared regional floras | Laos (1373 genera) |
Vietnam (2017 genera) |
Thailand (1475 genera) |
Myanma (1903) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geographical elements at generic level |
%* | %* | %* | %* |
| 1 Cosmopolitan | 4.30 | 3.87 | 3.86 | 4.47 |
| 2 Pantropic | 19.81 | 17.60 | 20.88 | 17.66 |
| 3 Tropical Asia and Tropical America disjunct | 3.50 | 3.27 | 2.31 | 3.10 |
| 4 Old World Tropic | 9.69 | 9.07 | 10.64 | 8.99 |
| 5 Tropical Asia to Tropical Australia | 11.51 | 9.77 | 11.66 | 9.56 |
| 6 Tropical Asia to Tropical Africa | 7.72 | 6.74 | 7.32 | 6.73 |
| 7 Tropical Asia | 30.08 | 29.65 | 32.14 | 26.48 |
| Tropical elements (types 2–7) in total | 82.30 | 76.10 | 84.95 | 72.52 |
| 8 North Temperate | 4.30 | 6.30 | 3.93 | 7.46 |
| 9 East Asia and North America disjunct | 2.69 | 2.83 | 1.83 | 3.05 |
| 10 Old World Temperate | 1.89 | 2.68 | 1.42 | 3.73 |
| 11 Temperate Asia | 0.15 | 0.35 | 0.14 | 0.37 |
| 12 Mediterranean, W Asia to C Asia | 0.66 | 0.79 | 0.54 | 1.26 |
| 13 Center Asia | 3.20 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.32 |
| 14 East Asia | 0.36 | 5.85 | 2.78 | 6.20 |
| 15 SW China to N Indochina | 4.30 | 1.19 | 0.07 | 0.37 |
| Temperate elements (types 8–15) in total | 13.26 | 20.03 | 10.78 | 22.75 |
| Endemic to Laos | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Endemic to Vietnam | 0 | 0 | ||
| Endemic to Burma | 0.41 | |||
| Endemic to Burma | 0.26 | |||
| Total | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
*The number of genera in each geographical element/ the number of genera of all geographical elements times 100.