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What is the island with the greatest biodiversity?

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According to the Guinness Book of Records for 2022, the island of New Guinea, in the Pacific Ocean, is the island with the most biodiversity of flora in the entire world.

It is home to 13,634 species of vascular plants (those that have inner vessels that transport both water and nutrients), as stated in a study published in the journal Nature on August 5, 2020.

The flora of the second largest island in the world, after Greenland, comprises 1,742 genera and 264 families, and 68% of the species are endemic . And an amazing curiosity: a fifth of all plants are orchids.

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