What would it feel like to get slapped around with the New Caledonian Tree Carrot, #Apiopetalum velutinum? Does Drosera neocaledonica know no bounds? Will Tony cry like a little sissy when it rains on his ass and he realizes he stubbornly refused to bring a tent? What does an #Araucaria muelleri dong look like? Is #Melaleuca dawsonii the finest Myrtaceae on the Island of New Caledonia?
We return to the rust-colored slopes of the mountains of New Caledonia to take a look at what effects a combination of ancient lineages of plants and strange, ultramafic geology have on shaping a plant community on this island in the middle of the South Pacific.
New Caledonia is a fragment of continent that broke off the ancient supercontinent #Gondwana 80 million years ago and was tectonically "set adrift" in the Pacific Ocean, North of New Zealand and East of Australia. Sometime during the Eocene, 50 million years ago, a huge slab of oceanic crust was obducted on top of the land mass, giving it the rich assemblage of #ultramafic rocks and #ophiolites that it has today. These kinds of rocks tend to induce #speciation in plants due to their odd chemistry and lack of nutrients.
Araucaria bernieri (Araucariaceae)
Stenocarpus milnei (Proteaceae)
Codia albifrons (Cunoniaceae)
Tapeinosperma sp. (Primulaceae)
Neocallitropsis pancheri (Cupressaceae)
Metrosideros operculata (Myrtaceae)
Boronella pancheri (Rutaceae)
Neoschmidia pallida (Rutaceae)
Marsdenia ericoides (Apocynaceae)
Gleichenia dicarpa (Gleicheniaceae)
Solmsia calophylla (Thymelaeaceae)
Drosera neocaledonica (Droseraceae)
Cunonia atrorubens (Cunoniaceae)
Greslania circinata (Poaceae)
Costularia fragilis (Cyperaceae)
Apiopetalum velutinum (Apiaceae)
Melaleuca dawsonii (Myrtaceae)
Eriaxis rigida (Orchidaceae)
Megastylis gigas (Orchidaceae)
Eria karicouyensis (Orchidaceae)
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26 авг 2024
