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Abstract

This paper on the flowering plants of the Society Islands, French Polynesia, treats 114 families of dicots and 27 families of monocots. Included within them are at least 1166 species in 681 genera. Many additional species are highlighted and discussed where relevant information is available about them, but are not included in keys to genera, and generic descriptions are not provided; neither are they included in the above total figures. About two-thirds of the species have been introduced since the arrival in the Islands of the ship Endeavour commanded by Captain James Cook in 1769. His botanists, Joseph Banks and Daniel Carlsson Solander, gathered a large herbarium, many of which were illustrated by Sydney Parkinson, who unfortunately contracted a fever and died prior to the end of the voyage. Since that famous voyage of discovery many botanists, and others interested in plants, have visited the Society Islands. Rather large numbers of plants have been collected in the two centuries since Cook, but following the landmark work of Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1892), no attempt at an inclusive flora of the Islands has appeared, until the 1998 first publication of Flora Societensis. This second edition is an attempt to bring the work to date, and to include a rather larger number of mainly introduced taxa.

This for work the is individual islands from which they are reported. Pertinent specimens are cited for each taxon. Names are followed by bibliographic citations, as are those of basionyms.

Table of Contents

Contents

Dedication

Abstract

Preface

Introduction

Key to the Families

Dicot Families

Key to the Monocots

Monocot Families

References

Author List

Glossary

Index

Addendum

Publication Date

2009

Keywords

Society Islands, plant identification, introduced taxa

Flora Societensis, 2nd Edition: A Summary Revision of the Flowering Plants of the Society Islands: Mehetia, Tahiti, Moorea, Tetiaroa (iles du vent); Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora Bora, Tupai, Maupiti, and Mopelia (iles sous le vent)

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