SEEDS PLANTS OF FIJI

111. Ericaceae 1/1
Paphia 1. 450 – 1323 m. Dense or often mossy forest. Smith did not accept Stevens’
(1972) treatment of genus Paphia as a subgenus of Agapetes. Stevens (2004) revised
his earlier opinion and accepted Paphia as a genus.
112. Epacridaceae 1/1
Leucopogon 1. Nr. s.l. – 1075 m.
113. Symplocaceae 1/2
Symplocos 2. Nr. s.l., coastal thickets, – 1323 m.
114. Ebenaceae 1/7
Diospyros 7. Nr. s.l., beach thickets, rocky shores, – 1130 m. Limestone.
115. Sapotaceae 4/21
Planchonella 9. Rocky coasts, coastal thickets, – 1120 m. Limestone. The taxonomy
follows Smith and also Bartish et al. (2005). Pennington (1991) treated all the
Fiji species under Pouteria.
Burckella 5. Nr. s.l. – 825. Limestone.
Palaquium 4. 30 – 1120 m. Dense or open forest, dense ridge thicket.
Manilkara 3. Nr. the shore, coastal thickets, coastal forest, limestone cliffs, – 825 m.
(Mimusops 1. Smith treated this as indigenous eastwards only to Vanuatu; van
Balgooy, 1971, accepted it as indigenous in Fiji).
116. Myrsinaceae 6/29
Maesa 7. Nr. s.l. – 1200 m. (All seven species occur nr. s.l.). Limestone.
Ardisia 1. 150 – 915 m. Dense forest, thicket, forest-grassland transition.
Tapeinosperma 12. s.l. – 1323 m. Limestone.
Discocalyx 3. Nr. s.l. – 1120 m.
Embelia 2. Nr. s.l. – 1180 m. Gardner (1997) described the second species.
Rapanea 4. Nr. s.l., beach thickets, on limestone – 1323 m.
117. Cunoniaceae 5/13
Spiraeanthemum 3. 175 – 1323 m. Dense forest or on its edges, dry forest, dense
thicket, forest-grassland transition, sometimes open places.
Acsmithia 1. 450 – 1200 m. Thickets on crests or ridges or in open places.
Geissois 4. Nr. s.l. – 900 m.
Weinmannia 4. 90 – 1323 m. Forest, dense thickets, dry or open forest, open ridges,
open places. The group was revised by Hopkins (1998a,b), who treated W.
spiraeoides (accepted by Smith but known only from the sterile type) as a ‘doubtful
species’.
Pullea 1. Nr. s.l. – 626 m.
119. Pittosporaceae 1/5
Pittosporum 5. Nr. s.l., beach thickets, – 1323 m. Limestone. Gemmill et al. (2002)
examined the affinities of one of the Fijian species in a sample of Pacific species.
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