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 Regional Overview of Caribbean Islands
TABLE 44. VASCULAR PLANT ENDEMISM IN THE LESSER ANTILLES (Anguilla to Barbados)
Number of islands
or island groups
to which species
are endemic
 Number of
lowering fern
plant species
 Number of
species
 Total
species
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5
  6
  7
  8
  9
10		 96
45
42
27
27
19
  9
  8
  8
  5		 8
8
7
6
1
3
4
0
3
2		 104
  53
  49
  33
  28
  22
  13
    8
  11
    7
Totals 286 42 328
(Data from Fournet 1978; Howard 19741989; Nicolson 1991).