Macaronesian.

1878 J. D. Hooker & J. Ball Jrnl. Tour Marocco 444 Almost all the species common to the Atlas and to Macaronesia are widely spread Mediterranean plants that ascend from the low country into the valleys.

1917 H. B. Guppy Plants, Seeds & Currents in W. Indies & Azores xviii. 416 The parent stocks have since been driven from their European home, and the Laurel woods of Macaronesia are all that remains of a period when trees now characteristic of Asia and America formed the forests of our continent.

1947 R. Good Geogr. Flowering Plants viii. 143 Erica arborea..is distributed northward from tropical Africa well into the Mediterranean region and in Macaronesia.

1973 Nature 1 June 261/1 The term Macaronesia is a collective name for the Atlantic Islands including Madeira, the Azores, the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands which have long been recognized by plant geographers as together forming a floristic region characterized by many common elements associated with high endemism.

1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 4085 Most evolutionary studies of oceanic islands have focused on the Pacific Ocean. There are very few examples from the Atlantic archipelagos, especially Macaronesia.