Meryta paucifloraHemsl. ex Cheeseman

Rarotonga Meryta

WFO wfo-0000241857 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Meryta pauciflora, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. a Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2015-07-29 / obs. 2259862
Meryta pauciflora, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. b Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 2259863
Meryta pauciflora, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. c Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200198908
Meryta pauciflora, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. d Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199044786
Meryta pauciflora, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199046994
Meryta pauciflora, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. f Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2020665
Meryta pauciflora, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. g Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2020666
Meryta pauciflora, photographed by Peter de Lange
fig. h Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2020667

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01137231
Filed as
Meryta pauciflora Hemsl. ex Cheeseman
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Meryta pauciflora is native: Cook Is. Cook Is.
Native distribution of Meryta pauciflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cook Is. COO PACIFIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.