A PRECURSORY STUDY OF FIJIAN ORCHIDS
This paper is preliminary to a treatment of the Orchidaceae of Fiji to be included in Flora Vitiensis Nova (A. C. Smith), discussing details, mostly nomenclatural in nature, of the 63 genera and 168 species to be included in that account. Only indigenous and naturalized taxa are included. Of the 162 species of orchids, belonging to 59 genera, now believed to be indigenous in Fiji, 54 are considered to be endemic. Two new sectional names are required: Appendicula sect. Stenodesme and Malaxis sect. Oistochilus. Ten new specific combinations here proposed are: Peristylus tradescantifolius, P. maculifer, P. stenodon, P. aliformis, Goodyera vitiensis, Pristiglottis longiflora, P. degeneri, Malaxis tetraloba, M. reineckeana, and M. whitmeei. Twenty-four new species are described: Erythrodes parvula, Dendrobium trilobulatum, D. carnicarinum, D. unicarinatum, Agrostophyllum aristatum, Glomera emarginata, Aglossorhyncha bilobula, Calanthe imthurnii, Spathoglottis smithii, Bulbophyllum simmondsii, B. aristopetalum, B. hassallii, B. amplistigmaticum, B. quadricarinum, B. incommodum, Phreatia gillespiei, P. bigibbula, P. pentagona, P. flavovirens, Sarcochilus williamsianus, Cleisostoma longipaniculatum, Microtatorchis smithii, Taeniophyllum confusum, and T. smithii
Article, 1989