Nemuaron vieillardii is a species of trees in the Atherospermataceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia and the only species of the genus Nemuaron.[1][2] Its closest relative is the monotypic genus Atherosperma from Australia.[3]

References

  1. ^ Morat, P., T. Jaffré, F. Tronchet, J. Munzinger, Y. Pillon, J. M. Veillon, and M. Chalopin (2012). The taxonomic reference base Florical and characteristics of the native vascular flora of New Caledonia. Adansonia 34 (2): 179–221.
  2. ^ Jérémie, J. (1982) Athérospermatacées. In Flore de La Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances, edited by A. Aubréville and J. F. Leroy, 11:161–64. Paris: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle.
  3. ^ Renner, S. S., D. B. Foreman, and D. Murray. (2000) Timing Transantarctic Disjunction in the Atherospermataceae (Laurales): Evidence from Coding and Non Coding Chloroplast Sequences. Systematic Biology 49: 579–91.