Papuasia
Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World [Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions]. It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia.
It comprises the following geographic and political entities:
- Aru [Islands Regency|Aru Islands]
- New Guinea
- * Papua New Guinea
- * Western New Guinea
- Solomon Islands (archipelago)
- * Autonomous [Region of Bougainville|Bougainville]
- * Solomon Islands