Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie

Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie is an ongoing multi-volume flora describing the vascular plants of New Caledonia (including the Loyalty Islands, Isles of Pines and Belep islands) in the South-West Pacific. published by the National Museum of Natural History in Paris since 1967. Each species treatment typically includes taxonomic information, morphological description, a line drawing and a distribution map. Originally published as Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances, since 2014 it has been renamed shortly Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie and is co-published with Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in a fully colored format. Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie currently consists of 26 volumes, covering little over 50% of a total of approximately 3,400 species[1] native to the New Caledonian archipelago. Major botanical families awaiting treatment include Rubiaceae, Cyperaceae, Rutaceae and Poaceae.

List of published volumes

Volume 1 (1967) – Sapotaceae by A. Aubréville
Volume 2 (1968) – Proteaceae by R. Virot
Volume 3 (1969) –Pteridophytes (Ferns & Lycopods) by G. Brownlie
Volume 4 (1972) – Gymnosperms by D.J. de Laubenfels
Volume 5 (1974) – Lauraceae by A.J.G. Kostermans
Volume 6 (1975) – Epacridaceae (genera now included in Ericaceae) by Robert Virot
Volume 7 (1976) – Acanthaceae, Bignoniaceae, Boraginaceae & Solanaceae by H.Heine
Volume 8 (1977) – Orchidaceae by N. Hallé
Volume 9 (1980) – Flacourtiaceae (genera now included in Salicaceae) by M. Lescot, Symplocaceae by H.P. Nooteboom, Icacinaceae (genera now placed in Cardiopteridaceae, Metteniusaceae and Stemonuraceae), Corynocarpaceae & Olacaceae by J.F. Villiers
Volume 10 (1981) – Apocynaceae (excluding Asclepiadoideae) by P. Boiteau
Volume 11 (1982) – Elaeocarpaceae by C. Tirel, Monimiaceae, Amborellaceae, Atherospermataceae, Trimeniaceae, Chloranthaceae by J. Jérémie
Volume 12 (1983) – Fabaceae-Mimosoideae by I. Nielsen, Chrysobalanaceae by G. Prance, Plumbaginaceae by J. Edmondson
Volume 13 (1984) – Convolvulaceae by H. Heine
Volume 14 (1987) – Euphorbiaceae part I (including genera now placed in Picrodendraceae) by G. McPherson & C. Tirel
Volume 15 (1988) – Hernandiaceae by J. Jérémie, Meliaceae by D.J. Mabberley, Oncothecaceae by P. Morat & J.-M. Veillon, Santalaceae by N. Hallé
Volume 16 (1990) – Dilleniaceae by J.-M. Veillon, Goodeniaceae by I.H. Müller, Iridaceae by P. Goldblatt, Campynemataceae by P. Goldblatt
Volume 17 (1991) – Euphorbiaceae - Phyllanthoideae (genera now placed in Phyllanthaceae and Putranjivaceae) by G. McPherson & M. Schmid
Volume 18 (1992) – Myrtaceae-Leptospermoideae (Myrtaceae excluding Myrteae and Syzygieae) by J.W. Dawson
Volume 19 (1993) – Ebenaceae by F. White, Winteraceae by W. Vink
Volume 20 (1996) – Celastraceae by I.H. Müller, Loranthaceae & Viscaceae (Korthalsella now placed in Santalaceae) by B.A. Barlow, Alseuosmiaceae (Periomphale) by C. Tirel & J. Jérémie, Paracryphiaceae (Paracryphia) by J. Jérémie, Tiliaceae (genera now placed in Malvaceae-Grewioideae) by C. Tirel
Volume 21 (1997) – Sphenostemonaceae (Sphenostemon now placed in Paracryphiaceae) by J. Jérémie, Anacardiaceae by M. Hoff, Cruciferae by B. Jonsell
Volume 22 (1998) – Menispermaceae by L. Forman, Oleaceae & Passifloraceae by P.S. Green
Volume 23 (1999) – Myrtaceae-Syzygium by J.W. Dawson
Volume 24 (2002) – Pittosporaceae by C. Tirel & J.-M. Veillon
Volume 25 (2004) – Hippocrateaceae (Dicarpellum now placed in Celastraceae) by M.P. Simmons, Labiatae by D.J. Mabberley & R.P.J. de Kok, Vitaceae by D.J. Mabberley
Volume 26 (2014) – Cunoniaceae by HC.F. Hopkins, Y. Pillon & R.D. Hoogland

off series

Catalogue of introduced and cultivated plants in New Caledonia by H.S. McKee (1985: first edition, 1994: second edition)

References

Morat, P., T. Jaffré, F. Tronchet, J. Munzinger, Y. Pillon, J. M. Veillon, and M. Chalopin (2012). The taxonomic reference base Florical and characteristics of the native vascular flora of New Caledonia. Adansonia 34 (2): 179–221. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/a2012n2a1

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[1] Morat, P., T. Jaffré, F. Tronchet, J. Munzinger, Y. Pillon, J. M. Veillon, and M. Chalopin (2012). The taxonomic reference base Florical and characteristics of the native vascular flora of New Caledonia. Adansonia 34 (2): 179–221. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/a2012n2a1