''Kermadecia'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the family

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family (biology), family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genus, genera with about 1,660 known species. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentr ...

. The genus comprises eight species of rainforest trees from

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 ...

Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...

, and

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east o ...

. Its closest relative is ''

Euplassa ''Euplassa'' is a genus of flowering plants in the protea family. It is native to tropical South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller ...

'' from South America.Mast, A. R., C. L. Willis, E. H. Jones, K. M. Downs, and P. H. Weston. (2008) A Smaller Macadamia from a More Vagile Tribe: Inference of Phylogenetic Relationships, Divergence Times, and Diaspore Evolution in Macadamia and Relatives (Tribe Macadamieae; Proteaceae). American Journal of Botany 95, no. 7 : 843–70.

Species

*'' Kermadecia austrocaledonica'' (Brongn. & Gris) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks., New Caledonia *'' Kermadecia brinoniae'' H.C.Hopkins & Pillon, New Caledonia *'' Kermadecia ferruginea'' A.C.Sm., Fiji *'' Kermadecia lutea'' Guillaumin, Vanuatu *'' Kermadecia pronyensis'' (Guillaumin) Guillaumin, New Caledonia *'' Kermadecia rotundifolia'' Brongn. & Gris, New Caledonia *'' Kermadecia sinuata'' Brongn. & Gris, New Caledonia *'' Kermadecia vitiensis'' Turrill, Fiji

References

Macadamieae Flora of the Southwestern Pacific Proteaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Jean Antoine Arthur Gris Taxa named by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart {{proteaceae-stub