Hunga Explained

Hunga is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae, described as a genus in 1979.[1] [2]

They are native to New Guinea and New Caledonia.[3]

List of species

  1. Hunga cordata Prance - New Caledonia
  2. Hunga gerontogea (Schltr.) Prance - New Caledonia
  3. Hunga guillauminii Prance - New Caledonia
  4. Hunga lifouana (Däniker) Prance - New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
  5. Hunga longifolia Prance - Papua New Guinea
  6. Hunga mackeeana Prance - New Caledonia
  7. Hunga minutiflora (Baker f.) Prance - New Caledonia
  8. Hunga myrsinoides (Schltr.) Prance - New Caledonia
  9. Hunga novoguineensis Prance - Papua New Guinea
  10. Hunga papuana (Baker f.) Prance - Papua New Guinea
  11. Hunga rhamnoides (Guillaumin) Prance - New Caledonia

Notes and References

  1. Prance, Ghillean Tolmie. 1979. Brittonia 31: 79-86
  2. Web site: Tropicos, Hunga Pancher ex Prance . 2014-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131105120250/http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40028355 . 2013-11-05 . dead .
  3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=370825 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families