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Clerodendrum 1. Nr. s.l.: beach thickets, rocky shores, sea cliffs, inner edges of<br />
mangrove swamps, dry forested ravines, along roadsides, limestone.<br />
183. Lamiaceae 2/2<br />
Plectranthus 1. Nr. s.l. – 1050 m.<br />
Leucas 1. Nr. s.l. – 600 m.<br />
185. Goodeniaceae 1/2<br />
Scaevola 2. S. sericea is abundant along beaches and rocky shores near s.l., in beach<br />
thickets and forest, at the high tide mark (Yakuilau I., Nadi, Vodonaivalu, SUVA),<br />
and on limestone (Kadavu, Qoro, SUVA); S. floribunda occurs nr. s.l. (but seldom<br />
on beaches) – 1200 m in dense and open forest. (One collection of S. floribunda<br />
(B.E.P. i.e. B.E. Parham, Korobasabasaga, SUVA) is labelled 3900’ (1300 m), but<br />
this range only reaches 1179 m.<br />
186. Compositae 8/9 (2 endemic species only).<br />
Vernonia 1. 400–900 m. Dense or dry forest, open places.<br />
Wollastonia 1. Nr. s.l. – 450 m. Abundant along coasts, on edges of mangrove<br />
swamps, in thickets, waste places, grassy hills, edges of forest.<br />
Glossogyne 1. No altitudinal information available. Only collected once (Seemann,<br />
‘mountains’ in Macuata; cf. Pimia – Sterc., and Pytinicarpa – Compos.).<br />
Adenostemma 2. 100 – 1100 m. Dense forest, sometimes in swampy places.<br />
Dichrocephala 1. No altitudinal information available. Only collected once (Seemann,<br />
‘Common all over Viti’!).<br />
Pytinicarpa (= Keysseria p.p.) 1. No altitudinal information available. Only collected<br />
once (U. S. Expl. Exped., ‘Mountains’ in Macuata). (For taxonomy, see Nesom,<br />
2001).<br />
Blumea 1. Nr. s.l. – 1100 m.<br />
Centipeda 1. Nr. s.l. – 200 m.<br />
(Acmella (= Spilanthes p.p.) was accepted as indigenous by van Balgooy, 1971, but<br />
not by Smith. See discussion under ‘Weedy taxa’, above).<br />
APPENDIX S2. Plants recorded in or around mangrove in Fiji. Species also recorded from<br />
limestone in Fiji are in bold.<br />
GYMNOSPERMS<br />
Agathis macrophylla (Araucar.). Vanuatu and Fiji.<br />
(Margbensonia (Podocarpus) neriifolius is recorded on limestone and at the edge of tidal<br />
swamp).<br />
MONOCOTS<br />
Halophila ovalis (Hydrocharit.). East Africa – Samoa.<br />
Halodule pinifolia (Cymodoc.). Taiwan – Fiji/Tonga.<br />
Oberonia equitans (Orchid.). New Caledonia east to the Tuamotus.<br />
Liparis elliptica (Orchid.). Sri Lanka, Sikkim and Taiwan, SE to New Caledonia and Fiji.<br />
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