Further new endemic taxa of Cunoniaceae from New Caledonia

A description, illustration, distribution map and conservation assessment are given for each of three new species of Cunoniaceae from New Caledonia and plants endemic to the same localities from other genera are mentioned. Cunonia bopopensis Pillon & H. C. Hopkins is known from forest on ultramafic soils at high elevation on Mt Tchingou. This massif offers ecological conditions markedly different from those of its surroundings, which may explain the occurrence of several micro-endemics on this mountain. Some specimens of C. bopopensis were previously identified as C. bernieri Guillaumin but the type of the latter is probably a hybrid and this name is now considered doubtful. Geissois belema Pillon & H. C. Hopkins is endemic to Ile Art in the Belep archipelago, where it occurs in forest on ultramafic soils; it is the only species of Geissois known from Ile Art. Pancheria xaragurensis H. C. Hopkins & Pillon is found largely on the little-explored Forgotten Coast (“C?te Oubliée”) of south-eastern Grande Terre, generally in maquis along streams and in river beds at low elevation on ultramafic substrate. Morphological and ecological variation in the widespread taxa Geissois pruinosa Brongn. & Gris and Weinmannia dichotoma Brongn. & Gris are discussed and the combinations G. pruinosa var. intermedia (Vieill. ex Pamp.) H. C. Hopkins & Pillon and W. dichotoma var. monticola (D?niker) H. C. Hopkins & Pillon are published to accommodate some of this variability.