Fitchia speciosa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Fitchia speciosa Cheeseman, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 6(6): 284 (1903)

Type: not designated, but there are syntypes deposited in AK {AK46018^(JSTOR), AK90472^(JSTOR), AK90473^(JSTOR), AK90474^(JSTOR)} [all collected by T.F. Cheeseman in 1899].
Type locality: Cook Islands. Rarotonga.

Native distribution areas:
Pacific South-Central Pacific Cook Is. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

IUCN: Fitchia speciosa Cheeseman (Least Concern) - Assessed by P. de Lange, T. Martin & G. McCormack on 25 March 2011 and published in 2014.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Fitchia speciosa in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 May 6. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2022. Fitchia speciosa. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 May 6. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Fitchia speciosa. Published online. Accessed: 6 May 2022.

English: Rarotonga Fitchia
Kūki'Āirani: Neinei

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