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Descriptions, illustrations, distribution maps and conservation assessments are provided for two new species of Cunonia from New Caledonia. Cunonia dickisonii Pillon & H. C. Hopkins is endemic to montane ultramafic scrub at high elevation on Mts Humboldt and Kouakoué. Cunonia koghicola H. C. Hopkins, J. Bradford & Pillon is from wet forest at low to medium elevation in the region of Mt Koghi, and irregularities in leaf shape and venation suggest it may be of hybrid origin. Microendemism on Mt Humboldt and Mt Kouakoué is briefly discussed.
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The authors wish to thank the curators at K, MO, NOU, P for providing facilities and access to their collections, and BM and L for the loan of further material. We are grateful to Patricia K. R. Davies and Cécile Monnié for the fine drawings. YP thanks the staff of the Laboratoire de Botanique (IRD Nouméa) for advice and assistance during field work and Jérôme Munzinger in particular for the picture of Cunonia dickisonii. Field work on Mt Kouakoué was made possible by the support of the Province Sud (New Caledonia) and a grant of the National Geographic Society (Grant 7579-04) to Jérôme Munzinger. Fieldwork by HCFH and JCB was supported by the EU Human Capital and Mobility Fund (HCFH) and Missouri Botanical Garden (JCB) in 1996 and the National Geographic Society (both) in 2000 and 2002. Two anonymous reviewers provided useful comments on the manuscript.
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Pillon, Y., Hopkins, H.C.F. & Bradford, J.C. Two new species of Cunonia (Cunoniaceae) from New Caledonia. Kew Bull 63, 419–431 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-008-9045-7
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