Abstract:

The vegetation of Paracel Islands was surveyed in this paper. A total of 310 vascular species belonging to 212 genera 82 families were found in the Paracel Islands and the dominant flora types was widespread tropical vegetation. The vegetation types on the islands are evergreen forest of coral islands, evergreen shrubs of coral islands, evergreen thorn- shrubs of coral islands and beach vegetation. Furthermore, the characteristics of vegetation in each island were also discussed in this paper and some advices were also given in order to the vegetation conservation and the islands exploitation.