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Ascarina diffusa

Ascarina diffusa
Photo: Nom. rev., CC BY 4.0
Family
Chloranthaceae (Chloranth family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Bismarck Arch. to Cook Is.
Climate
wet tropical

About

Ascarina diffusa is a species of flowering plant in the family Chloranthaceae. It is native to the tropical Pacific, ranging from the Bismarck Archipelago through the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and the Samoan Islands to the Cook Islands.

On Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, Ascarina diffusa is a characteristic tree of cloud forests above 400 meters elevation, becoming dominant or co-dominant with Metrosideros collina in higher and wetter cloud forest areas.

Other Ascarina plants

Ascarina coursii · Hutu · Ascarina philippinensis · Ascarina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ascarina diffusa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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