''Kermadecia'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s in the family

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Pro ...

. The genus comprises five species, all endemic to

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. Its closest relatives are ''

Sleumerodendron ''Sleumerodendron'' is a monotypic genus of plant in the family Proteaceae. The sole species is ''Sleumerodendron austrocaledonicum''. This species is endemic to New Caledonia. It is closely related to ''Turrillia'' (Vanuatu, Fiji) and ''Kermade ...

'' (New Caledonia) and ''

Turrillia '' Turrillia '' is a genus of plants in the family Proteaceae, native to Oceania. The genus was named by American botanist Albert Charles Smith in 1985, in ''Flora Vitiensis Nova'' 3, containing five species. Only three, from Fiji and Vanuatu, a ...

'' (

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), 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 ...

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...

),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. of which the species have once been placed in ''Kermadecia''.

Species

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Kermadecia brinoniae ''Kermadecia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. The genus comprises five species, all endemic to New Caledonia. Its closest relatives are '' Sleumerodendron'' (New Caledonia) and '' Turrillia'' (Fiji, Vanuatu Vanuatu ...

'' H.C.Hopkins & Pillon *''

Kermadecia elliptica ''Kermadecia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. The genus comprises five species, all endemic to New Caledonia. Its closest relatives are '' Sleumerodendron'' (New Caledonia) and '' Turrillia'' (Fiji, Vanuatu),Mast, A. R. ...

'' Brongn. & Gris *''

Kermadecia pronyensis ''Kermadecia pronyensis'' is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natur ...

'' (Guillaumin) Guillaumin *''

Kermadecia rotundifolia ''Kermadecia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. The genus comprises five species, all endemic to New Caledonia. Its closest relatives are '' Sleumerodendron'' (New Caledonia) and '' Turrillia'' (Fiji, Vanuatu),Mast, A. R. ...

'' Brongn. & Gris *''

Kermadecia sinuata ''Kermadecia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. The genus comprises five species, all endemic to New Caledonia. Its closest relatives are '' Sleumerodendron'' (New Caledonia) and '' Turrillia'' (Fiji, Vanuatu),Mast, A. R. ...

'' Brongn. & Gris

References

Endemic flora of New Caledonia Proteaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Jean Antoine Arthur Gris Taxa named by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart {{proteaceae-stub