Kermadecia

Kermadecia
Kermadecia rotundifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Kermadecia
Kermadecia sinuata - MHNT

Kermadecia is a genus of flowering plants in family Proteaceae. The genus comprises four species, all endemic to New Caledonia.[1] Its closest relatives are Sleumerodendron (New Caledonia) and Turrillia (Fiji, Vanuatu),[2] of which the species have once been placed in Kermadecia.

Species

  • Kermadecia elliptica Brongn. & Gris
  • Kermadecia pronyensis (Guillaumin) Guillaumin
  • Kermadecia rotundifolia Brongn. & Gris
  • Kermadecia sinuata Brongn. & Gris

References

  1. ↑ Virot, R. (1967). Protéacées. In Flore de La Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances, edited by A. Aubréville, 2:1–254. Paris: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle.
  2. ↑ Mast, A. R., C. L. Willis, E. H. Jones, K. M. Downs, and P. H. Weston. (2008) A Smaller Macadamia from a More Vagile Tribe: Inference of Phylogenetic Relationships, Divergence Times, and Diaspore Evolution in Macadamia and Relatives (Tribe Macadamieae; Proteaceae). American Journal of Botany 95, no. 7 : 843–70.


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