''Hachettea austrocaledonica'' is a species of parasitic plant in the

Balanophoraceae The Balanophoraceae are a subtropical to tropical family of obligate parasitic flowering plants, notable for their unusual development and formerly obscure affinities. In the broadest circumscription, the family consists of 16 genera. Alterna ...

family. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

and the only species of the genus ''Hachettea''. Its closest relative is '' Dactylanthus'' from

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

.Su, Huei-Jiun, Jer-Ming Hu, Frank E. Anderson, Joshua P. Der, and Daniel L. Nickrent. (2015) Phylogenetic Relationships of Santalales with Insights into the Origins of Holoparasitic Balanophoraceae. Taxon 64 (3): 491–506. doi:10.12705/643.2.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q5891025, from2=Q17398627 Endemic flora of New Caledonia Balanophoraceae Monotypic Santalales genera Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon