''Myodocarpus'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...
s in the family
Myodocarpaceae
Myodocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants which contains 2 genera (''Delarbrea'', ''Myodocarpus'') and 15 species. The family is accepted under the APG IV system and placed in the order Apiales. In earlier systems the two genera were inclu ...
. It is endemic to
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 ...
.
[Morat, P., T. Jaffré, F. Tronchet, J. Munzinger, Y. Pillon, J. M. Veillon, and M. Chalopin (2012). The taxonomic reference base Florical and characteristics of the native vascular flora of New Caledonia. ''Adansonia''. 34(2): 179–221. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/a2012n2a1.] The only other genus of the family is ''
Delarbrea
''Delarbrea'' is a genus of plants in family Myodocarpaceae, which contains only one other genus, '' Myodocarpus''.
Species
The following seven species are accepted by Plants of the World Online :
*'' Delarbrea balansae'' (Baill.) Lowry & G.M. ...
''.
List of species
* ''
Myodocarpus crassifolius''
* ''
Myodocarpus fraxinifolius''
* ''
Myodocarpus gracilis''
* ''
Myodocarpus involucratus''
* ''
Myodocarpus lanceolatus''
* ''
Myodocarpus pinnatus''
* ''
Myodocarpus simplicifolius''
* ''
Myodocarpus vieillardii''
References
Apiales genera
Endemic flora of New Caledonia
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
Taxa named by Jean Antoine Arthur Gris
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