Overview
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Description
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Habitat
Ecology: A small gnarled tree growing in thickets on ridges and crests in upland areas.[1]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Saxifraganae
()
- Reveal, 1994
- Order:
Cunoniales
()
- J. Hutchinson, 1924
- Family:
Cunoniaceae
()
- R. Brown, 1814
- Genus:
Acsmithia
()
- Specific epithet:
vitiense
- (A.Gray) Hoogl.
- Botanical name: - Acsmithia vitiense (A.Gray) Hoogl.
- Specific epithet:
vitiense
- (A.Gray) Hoogl.
- Genus:
Acsmithia
(
- Family:
Cunoniaceae
(
- Order:
Cunoniales
(
- Superorder:
Saxifraganae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Acsmithia
There are approximately 18 species in this genus:
A. austro-caledonica · A. brongniartiana · A. collina · A. davidsonii · A. densiflora · A. elliptica · A. grandiflora · A. integrifolia · A. laxiflora · A. meridionalis · A. parvifolia · A. pedunculata · A. pubescens · A. pulleana · A. reticulata · A. undulata · A. vitiense · A. vitiensis
More Info
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- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
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- Lear, M. 1994. Letter to Harriet Gillett dated 28 March 1994, enclosing extracts from "Plant Conservation in Fiji" written by Michael Lear and Beverley Woods in March 1992.
- Lear, M. and Woods, B. 1992. Plant conservation in Fiji. WWF 3334. Small grants for plant conservation on islands (6) Fiji.
- Smith, A.C. 1979. Flora Vitiensis Nova: a new Flora of Fiji. Pacific Tropical Botanic Garden, Hawaii.
Notes
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Contributors
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Acsmithia vitiense. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7144522
- IUCN ID: 34365
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1022191
Footnotes
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
