Flora Vitiensis nova : a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only)

Smith, Albert C.

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“…Polygonum dichotomum (synonym Polygonum glabrum) has been suggested as a Polynesian introduction to Tonga (Smith 1981). This common wetland plant (Whistler 1992b) currently grows in Tongan swamps, including Finemui Swamp on Ha'afeva (Flenley et al 1999), and dominates the marsh vegetation at Vasi Vasi Swamp on Hunga Island, Vava'u (Fall unpublished).…”

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“…Polynesian introductions (about 40 species) to Tonga tend to be trees or herbaceous cultigens that are dispersed by people or native fauna, whereas European introductions (as many as 200 species) are primarily herbaceous species that are dispersed by wind or epizoochorously by humans or their domestic animals ). Nomenclature (including Tongan and English names where known) follows Smith (1979Smith ( , 1981Smith ( , 1991 and Whistler (1991) (Table 1).…”

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“…Tongatapu island group: Folaha Swamp in Fanga 'Uta Lagoon on Tongatapu, and Ano'a'pepe on 'Eua (see Table 2 for descriptions of coring localities). Smith (1979; and Whistler (1991) (Table 1 continues on page 257) terra australis 32…”

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Stevenson²,

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2010

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“…Two spp., NE Australia and New Guinea (Foreman 1995i: 225-228, Weston 1995e, as Gevuina). Recent floristic treatments have placed these two Australasian species in a variety of genera, including Turrillia (Smith 1985) and Gevuina (Weston 1995). On the basis of morphology they seem to be closely related sister species.…”

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A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera

Weston¹,

Barker²

2006

Telopea

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A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae is presented that takes account of available molecular systematic results, synthesised as a phylogenetic supertree. Subfamilial, tribal and subtribal names are recircumscribed or created, where necessary, to ensure the putative monophyly of named higher taxa. Subfamilies, tribes and subtribes are briefly described. One new subfamily, Symphionematoideae, two new tribes, Petrophileae, Leucadendreae, and four new subtribes, Leucadendreae subtribe Isopogoninae, Leucadendreae subtribe Leucadendrinae, Macadamieae subtribe Malagasiinae and Macadamieae subtribe Virotiinae are named. Information is provided on the number of species currently recognised in, and distribution of, each genus, and the most recent generic taxonomic treatments are cited. Challenges to the monophyly of some genera are briefly discussed.

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“…Geographically restricted treatments exist, however, in several floras, e.g. Flora of Tropical East Africa (Bridson & Verdcourt 1988), Flore du Gabon (Ν. Halle 1970) and Flora Vitiensis Nova (Smith & Darwin 1988). Robbrecht (1984) revived the tribe Pavetteae in the subfamily Ixoroideae to accommodate those genera in the Coffeeae sensu lato and in the Gardenieae which are characterized by terminal inflorescences, 3-or 4-colporate tectate pollen grains, drupaceous fruits, seeds with an adaxial excavation often surrounded by a thickened ring and exotestal cells with thickenings along the outer tangential wall.…”

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Pollen morphology of the Pavetteae (Rubiaceae, Ixoroideae) and its taxonomic significance

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Robbrecht²

1998

Grana

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Flora Vitiensis nova : a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only)

Cited by 149 publications

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera

Pollen morphology of the Pavetteae (Rubiaceae, Ixoroideae) and its taxonomic significance

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