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List of endemic flora of Indonesia

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This list article was started in 2011 and not much worked on after. A number of species on the list have since been renamed. A number of species are not confined to Indonesia. The basis of the list, being endemic to such a large and diverse country as Indonesia, seems contradictory to endemism's usually limited scope. There are numerous large islands of high endemism and biodiversity in the country: e.g. Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea etc., for which there are appropriate categories, e.g. Category:Flora of Sumatra and which could form the basis of better list articles. Declangi (talk) 00:21, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists and Indonesia. Shellwood (talk) 00:33, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete just a list, which is almost the same as the category list. --Moem-Meom (talk) 00:43, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:33, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete We have plenty of "endemic flora/fauna of X" articles, but all of those are restricted to manageable scales. This isn't - probably; I could be proven wrong. But in that case, the current unreferenced and heterogeneous mess is not a suitable basis for such an article. Delete, with no prejudice viz recreation from scratch with care and responsible sourcing. In the meantime, and probably sufficiently so, we have equivalent categories. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:41, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]