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navigation, search Nothofagus fusca, New Zealand  The Antarctic
flora is a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved
millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana, and is
now found on several separate areas of the Southern Hemisphere,
including southern South America, southernmost Africa, New
Zealand, Australia and New Caledonia. Based on the similarities
in their flora, botanist Ronald Good identified a separate
Antarctic Floristic Kingdom that included southern South
America, New Zealand, and some southern island groups. Good
identified Australia as its own floristic kingdom, and included
New Guinea and New Caledonia in the Paleotropical floristic
kingdom, because of the influx of tropical Eurasian flora that
had mostly supplanted the Antarctic flora.  Millions of years
ago, Antarctica was warmer and much wetter, and supported the
Antarctic flora, including forests of podocarps and southern
beech. Antarctica was also part of