Freycinetia vitiensis Seem. belongs to the Pandanaceae family. Flora of the World contains 1 recorded occurrence of this taxon, distributed across 1 country.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Pandanales
Family
Pandanaceae
Genus
Freycinetia
Specific Epithet
vitiensis
Authorship
Seem.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 4.2
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.7
Global rank
#66,758 of 335,497
Top 20%
Extinction probability
20%
Location
Fiji, Vanua Levu (Cakaudrove Prov.)
-16.626667, 179.017556
Location Remarks
Delaikoro Mountain. Road to cell tower, near the top. 926 m elev.
Collectors
Porter P. Lowry II, Jerome Munzinger, Gregory M. Plunkett, Bruce Gray, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Alivereti Naikatini
Notes
Humid, mid-elevation forest to low, open cloud forest farther up the steep slopes. Climber to 5 m. Fruit globose, green.