Abstract:

Our country has a profoundly flora because of reasons such as its physical structure. Historical progressing and so on. Our flora has above 8500 flowering plant species and when subspecies and varieties add previous quantity. That exceed 10000. The number of 3090 of those are endemic too. The endemic plants are plants having a restricted spreading area.   This study was done for defining endemics plants and investigated definition of endemic, distribution of those, classification of endemic plants and distribution of those dependent with altitude. İt was given the endemic plant throughout world and their endemism proportions, the geographic distribution of endemic plants in our country in respect of phytogeografic regions. It was compared the numbers of endemic species of some families and genuses. Astraceae is a familia having the most endemic species and Astragalus is a genus having the most endemic plant species. The most endemic plants in our country have been found in the Mediterranean. The East Anatolia zone of our country has 2nd grade in term of the number of its endemic plants.

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