''Hunga'' is a genus of plants in the family
Chrysobalanaceae
Chrysobalanaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of trees and shrubs in 27 genera and about 700 species of pantropical distribution with a centre of diversity in the Amazon. Some of the species contain silica in their bodies for ri ...
, described as a genus in 1979.
They are native to
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
and
New Caledonia.
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List of species
# ''Hunga cordata
''Hunga cordata'' is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia
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'' Prance - New Caledonia
# ''Hunga gerontogea
''Hunga gerontogea'' is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. The species is endemic to New Caledonia
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'' (Schltr.) Prance - New Caledonia
# '' Hunga guillauminii'' Prance - New Caledonia
# '' Hunga lifouana'' (Däniker) Prance - New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
The Loyalty Islands Province (French ''Province des îles Loyauté'') is one of three administrative subdivisions of New Caledonia encompassing the Loyalty Island (french: Îles Loyauté) archipelago in the Pacific, which are located northeast of ...
# '' Hunga longifolia'' Prance - Papua New Guinea
# ''Hunga mackeeana
''Hunga mackeeana'' is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; ...
'' Prance - New Caledonia
# '' Hunga minutiflora'' (Baker f.) Prance - New Caledonia
# '' Hunga myrsinoides'' (Schltr.) Prance - New Caledonia
# '' Hunga novoguineensis'' Prance - Papua New Guinea
# '' Hunga papuana'' (Baker f.) Prance - Papua New Guinea
# '' Hunga rhamnoides'' (Guillaumin) Prance - New Caledonia
References
Chrysobalanaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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