Researchers find there are at least 14,003 plant types in Amazon basin

(Phys.org)—A large team of researchers from Brazil, the U.K., Columbia and Spain has found that scientists have identified 14,003 types of plants growing in a major part of the Amazon rain forest. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes the many ways they searched for listings of plant types in the area and how they came up with a total.