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1200 m. Limestone.<br />
Calymmanthera 1. 725 – 900 m. Dense forest. .<br />
Thrixspermum 2. 100 – 400 m. Dense forest.<br />
Sarcochilus 1. 50–900 m. Dense forest.<br />
Chiloschista 1. ‘Usually occurring on limestone or in coastal areas (and on offshore<br />
islands)’ (Kores in Smith) – 30 m.<br />
Luisia 1. 100 – 300 m. Forest.<br />
Sarcanthopsis 1. Nr. s.l. – 80 m. Limestone.<br />
Saccolabiopsis 1. 150 – 400 m. Forest.<br />
Trachoma 1. One collection: 725 – 825 m (Rairaimatuku Plateau). Dense forest.<br />
Robiquetia (Saccolabium p.p.) 1. 50 – 1050 m. Dense forest.<br />
Schoenorchis 1. s.l. (Deuba beach, Vodonaivalu, SUVA, det. Kores) – 900 m.<br />
Cleisostoma 1. 100 – 500 m. Dense forest.<br />
Pomatocalpa 1. 50 – 1100 m. Dense forest. Kores (in Smith) cited a 1906 im Thurn<br />
collection labelled ‘common on rocks around Suva Harbour’, but regarded this<br />
record as ‘highly questionable’.<br />
Microtatorchis 2. 15 m (, Navakacuru Yacata I., Koroveibau), – 1120 m. Dense forest.<br />
Taeniophyllum 4. T. fasciola: dry forest along rocky coasts, on offshore islands, inner<br />
edges of mangrove swamps, etc. (Kores in Smith), beach epiphyte on Calophyllum<br />
(Vodonaivalu, SUVA) – 1200 m (T. gracile). Epiphytic on trees on limestone<br />
(Vanua Balavu).<br />
33. Cyperaceae 14/24<br />
Scirpodendron 1. Coastal marshes, mangrove swamps – 150 m.<br />
Mapania (incl. Paramapania and Thorachostachyum) 2. 300 – 416 m. One species is<br />
known only from two collections; the second species is known from a single<br />
collection with no altitudinal information. Habitat is only known for the first<br />
species: dense forest.<br />
Hypolytrum 1. s.l. – 800 m.<br />
Lepironia 1. 600 – 900 m. Swamps and morasses.<br />
Scleria 2. Nr. s.l. – 900 m.<br />
Eleocharis 2. Nr. s.l. – 825 m.<br />
Fimbristylis 3 (?4). On beaches – 900 m.<br />
Mariscus 2. Brackish swamps behind mangroves, sandy shores, rocky coasts, swampy<br />
ground, coconut plantations. Limestone.<br />
Torulinium 1. Nr. s.l. – 100 m.<br />
Machaerina 1. 100 – 760 m. Dense forest of crests and ridges, open cliffs and ridges,<br />
forest edge.<br />
Schoenus 1. One collection only (Korobasabasaga Ra.) with no altitudinal<br />
information.<br />
Rhynchospora 1. Nr. s.l. – 825 m. Forest.<br />
Gahnia 2. 100 – 1323 m. Dense thickets and openings on crests and ridges, rolling<br />
country with ferns and grasses.<br />
Carex 4. 50 – 1323 m. Forest, wet places on open slopes. Gardner (1997) recorded C.<br />
brunnea, new for Fiji.<br />
(Cyperus. Smith does not accept any of the nine species in Fiji as indigenous.<br />
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