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(a)
(b)
(c)
Figure 6.23 Some Antarctic terrestrial vegetation types
:
(a)
The two native
flowering plants found in Antarctica -
Deschampsia antarctica
and
Colobanthus quitensis
- photographed in the South Orkney Islands
(Credit: Peter Convey, BAS);
moss banks on the South
Sandwich Islands (Credit: Peter Convey, BAS);
(b) Polytrichum
Cyanobacterial mat in
a small pool on Adelaide Island (Credit: Peter Convey, BAS); (d) Crustose
lichens, the most diverse and widespread plants in Antarctica, on coastal
rocks of LĂ©onie Island, Marguerite Bay (Credit: Peter Bucktrout, BAS).
(c)
 
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