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Pterophylla tremuloides

Family
Cunoniaceae (Cunoni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Marquesas (Fatu Hiva)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Pterophylla tremuloides, formerly known as Weinmannia tremuloides, is a species of plant in the family Cunoniaceae. It is a shrub endemic to the island of Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia.

Where it grows

Pterophylla tremuloides is found only on the island of Fatu Hiva. Its typical habitat is low ridge top and cliff shrubland with Metrosideros, Dicranopteris, and Lycopodium between 700 and 850 metres elevation, where it is locally common.

Other Pterophylla plants

Weinmannia · Pterophylla aphanoneura · Pterophylla clemensiae · Pterophylla comorensis · Pterophylla exigua · Pterophylla fraxinea · Pterophylla marquesana · Pterophylla ouaiemensis · Pterophylla parviflora · Pterophylla racemosa · Pterophylla raiateensis · Pterophylla rapensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pterophylla tremuloides 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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