South China Sea islands consist of more than 1130 islands with total area of approximately 35000 km2.The highest mountain in Hainan Island is Wuzhi Shan, the highest peak being 1867.1 m.The major vegetation types in the islands include tropical rain forests, tropical monsoon forests,tropical coniferous forests,mangroves, tropical coral reef island evergreen forests,shrub forests, shrubby grassland and beach vegetation.There are 3584 species (including infr4specific ranks) of spermatophytes belonging to 182 ...