A STUDY ON THE FLORA OF WOODY PLANTSOF SHANXI AND THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG THE FLORA OF SHANXI AND SOME REGIONS, CHINA

Key words: 
• woody plant /
• floristic composition /
• diversity index /
• PCA /
• group average clustering /
• Shanxi

Abstract: There are 463 species of woody plant, belonging to 166 genera and 70 families in Shanxi, North China. The floristic composition types of genera and species are abundant, in which the compositions distributed in temperate zones (including North Temperate, Old World Temperate and Temperate Asia), having 62 genera, are dominant and account for 38.27% in total genera (except for Cosmopolitan), and they are major constructive or dominant species of vegetation in Shanxi. The floristic compositions of woody plants of Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Shandong, Henan, Jiangxi and Inner Mongolia were studied comparatively by using diversity index, principal component analysis(PCA) and group average clustering, respectively. The floristic composition of Shanxi was considerably similar to that of Hebei, Beijing and Shandong because they shared a lot of genera, specially genera distributed in temperate regions, such as Rosa, Quercus, Populus, Salix, Acer, Ulmus,　Pinus etc . and their eco environment were considerably similar. However, the flora of Shanxi was comparatively different from that of Henan, Jiangxi and Inner Mongolia by reason that there were distinct differences among their eco geographic conditions, floristic compositions and constructive or dominant species of dominant vegetation types.