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The wildlife of Iran include the fauna and flora of Iran. ... More than 8,200 plant species are grown in Iran. The land covered by Iran's natural flora is four times ...
Pages in category "Flora of Iran" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 354 total. ... Fortuynia (plant) Fraxinus excelsior; Fritillaria ...
Iran's forests can be divided into five vegetation regions: 1. Hyrcanian region (Caspian) which forms the green belt of the north side of the country. 2. The region of Iran and Turan, which are mainly scattered in the center of Iran. 3. Zagros region, which mainly contains oak forests in the west of the country. 4.
4000 years old Cypress of Abarqu is the oldest tree in Iran and the second oldest tree in the world. Iran has a very varied climate and a large variety of plants. More than 13 percent of the country is covered by forests. The list below is a just a start and is yet to be completed: Anacardiaceae
The biosphere reserves of Iran have a total land area of 1.64 million km 2. They support more than 8,000 recorded species of plants (almost 2,421 are endemic ), 502 species of birds , 164 species of mammals , 209 species of reptiles , and 375 species of butterflies .
Endemic fauna of Iran (116 P) F. Fish of Iran (41 P) I. Individual animals in Iran (4 P) R. Reptiles of Iran (1 C, 121 P) Pages in category "Fauna of Iran"
In Iran, the Hyrcanian ecoregion comprises a long strip along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and the northern slopes of the Alborz mountains. It covers parts of five provinces, from east to west: North Khorasan, Golestan (421,373 hectares (1,041,000 acres) being its south and southwest plus eastern regions of the Gorgan plain), Mazandaran, Gilan and Ardabil.
The following is a list of ecoregions in Iran as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions. Iran is in the Palearctic realm.