An Enumeration of the Vascular Plants of Mount Tabunan, Cebu Island, Philippines

Geofe O. Cadiz; Inocencio E. Buot, Jr.

Authors

Geofe O. Cadiz Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division, University of the Philippines Cebu College, Lahug, Cebu City
Inocencio E. Buot, Jr. Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences and School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna

Keywords:

floristic composition, tropical mountains, Cebu watershed, Tabunan forest

Abstract

Vascular plants in the north-eastern portion of Mount Tabunan, Cebu Island, The Philippines, were inventoried from ten plots. A total of 288 taxa were recorded, 213 have been identified at least to the family level and belong to 133 genera and 68 families.

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