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Interesting Facts
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
This subspecies
is endemic to dry forests
(including coastal forests).
Tropical
dry forests are probably among the world’s most endangered
of all lowland tropical forests. Because of their propensity to become
pastures and their susceptibility to fire, dry forests have reduced
dramatically, in size as well as in quality. In New Caledonia, they’ve
been intensively cut
for agricultural purposes for a century; what
remains today are highly fragmented
patches that have been estimated
at 2% of the original area. Dry forests used to be common around
Noumea. In fact, numerous
old herbarium
collections
of dry forest’s
plant species are from Noumea and its suburbs. However, intense urbanization,
developing human activities and repeated fires have nearly eradicated
this habitat
from this region.[1].
List of Habitats:
- 1 Forest
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Lamiales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Labiatae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Ajugoideae
()
- Tribe:
Caryopterideae
()
- Genus:
Oxera
()
- Labillardière, 1824
- Specific epithet:
pulchella
- Labill.
- Subspecies:
grandiflora
- Botanical name: - Oxera pulchella grandiflora Labill.
- Subspecies:
grandiflora
- Specific epithet:
pulchella
- Labill.
- Genus:
Oxera
(
- Tribe:
Caryopterideae
(
- Subfamily:
Ajugoideae
(
- Family:
Labiatae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Oxera
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Further Reading
- Bouchet, P., Jaffré, T. and Veillon, J.-M. 1995. Plant extinction in New Caledonia: protection of sclerophyll forest urgently needed. Biodiversity and Conservation 4: 415-428.
- IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.4). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 27 October 2010).
- Jaffré, T. and Veillon, J.M. 1991. La forêt sclérophylle de la Province Sud de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Rapport Sciences et Techniques. Sciences de la Vie. Botanique. ORSTOM/Province Sud, Nouméa.
- Jaffré, T., Bouchet, P. and Veillon, J.-M. 1998. Threatened plants of New Caledonia: Is the system of protected areas adequate? Biodiversity and Conservation 7: 109-135.
- Jaffré, T., Morat, P. and Veillon, J.-M. 1993. Etude floristique et phytogéographique de la forêt sclérophylle de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Section B, Adansonia 15(1-4): 107-146.
- Mabberley, D.J. and de Kok, R.P.J. 2005. Labiateae. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
- Meyer, J.-Y. 2000. Preliminary review of the invasive plants in the Pacific islands (SPREP Member Countries). Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy. In: G. Sherley (ed.). SPREP.
- Morat, P.,Jafré, T. and Veillon, J.M. 2001. The flora of New Caledonia's calcareous substrate. Adansonia 23(1): 1-19.
- de Garine-Wichatitsky, M., Soubeyran, Y., Maillard, D. and Duncan, P. 2005. The diets of introduced rusa deer (Cervus timorensis russa) in a native sclerophyll forest and a native rainforest of New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 32(2): 117-126.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
- Hequet, V. 2010. Oxera pulchella ssp. grandiflora. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1875327
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1009464-1
- IUCN ID: 42620
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2581518
Footnotes
- Hequet, V. 2010. Oxera pulchella ssp. grandiflora. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. ... [back]
