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Virotia is a
genusIn biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of six
speciesIn biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of
flowering plantThe flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the family
ProteaceaeProteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...
. The genus is endemic to
New CaledoniaNew Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
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The species, all previously included in the genus
MacadamiaMacadamia is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, with a disjunct distribution native to eastern Australia , New Caledonia and Sulawesi in Indonesia ....
, are as follows:
- Virotia angustifolia (Virot) P. H. Weston & A. R. Mast (basionym
Basionym is a term used in botany, regulated by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature...
: Macadamia angustifolia Virot)
- Virotia francii (Guillaumin
André Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
) P. H. Weston & A. R. Mast (basionym: RoupalaRoupala is a genus of plant in family Proteaceae. It contains the following species :* Roupala brachybotrys, I.M. Johnst.* Roupala loxensis, I.M. Johnst.* Roupala pinnata, Diels...
francii GuillauminAndré Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
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- Virotia leptophylla (Guillaumin
André Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
) L.A.S.Johnson & B.G.Briggs
- Virotia neurophylla
Macadamia neurophylla is a species of plant in the Proteaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia. It is threatened by habitat loss. It has recently been transferred to the genus Virotia, which is also endemic to New Caledonia.-References:...
(GuillauminAndré Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
) P. H. Weston & A. R. Mast (basionym: KermadeciaKermadecia is a genus of flowering plants in family Proteaceae. The genus comprises four species, all endemic to New Caledonia as follows:*Kermadecia elliptica Brongn. & Gris*Kermadecia pronyensis Guillaumin...
neurophylla GuillauminAndré Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
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- Virotia rousselii (Vieill.)P. H. Weston & A. R. Mast (basionym: Roupala rousselii Vieill)
- Virotia vieillardi (Brongn. & Gris) P. H. Weston & A. R. Mast (basionym: Roupala vieillardii Brongn.&Gris)