floristic

See floristics.

floristic (not comparable)

1. Describing a region with a relatively uniform composition of plant species.

   • The Lowland Fynbos is located at the southwestern tip of the African continent where it forms part of the Cape Floristic Region.

2. Of or pertaining to floristics.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:

     There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.

• floristic province