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Why is the California Floristic Province unique compared to other biodiversity hotspots around the world?

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Plants. Like other Mediterranean-type ecosystems, the California Floristic Province is distinguished more by the endemism of its plants than its animals. Of nearly 3,500 species of vascular plants in the hotspot, more than 61 percent are found nowhere else in the world. About 52 plant genera are also endemic.

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