Florical

Last update : August, 6, 2025

This webpage is providing the updated list of plants considered indigenous to New Caledonia. Regularly update versions will be published under EXCEL and PDF format, from the referential FLORICAL, accessible here.

FLORICAL is initially a collaborative work of Philippe Morat, Tanguy Jaffré, Frédéric Tronchet, Jérôme Munzinger, Yohan Pillon, Jean-Marie Veillon, Monique Chalopin et Marc Pignal. With technical help of Philippe Birnbaum, Frédéric Rigault, Gilles Dagostini & Jacqueline Tinel, and English translation provided by Porter Lowry II.

Currrent version was updated by Jérôme Munzinger, Gildas Gâteblé, Yohan Pillon, David Bruy & Germinal Rouhan, with technical help of Frédéric Theveny and Antoine Affouard.

Corrections were signalled by (in alphabetical order): Philippe Antonetti, Rémi Amice, Julien Barrault, Philippe Birnbaum, Jean-François Butaud, Hélène Cazé, Stéphanie Chanfreau, Vanessa Hequet, Vanessa Invernon, Sandrine Isnard, Tanguy Jaffré, Jonathan Maura, Vincent Tanguy, Sandrine Tercerie, Rosa Scopetra, which are gratefully acknowledged here.

Many specialists provided help, and in some cases kindly shared unpublished taxonomic information and are deeply acknowledged:

Frédéric Achille (MNHN); Martin Callmander (Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de Genève); Ruth Clark (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew); Helen Fortune-Hopkins (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew); Porter P. Lowry II (Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis and MNHN); Leon Perrie (WELT), Remy & A. Prelli (teachers); Neil Snow (Montana Natural Heritage Program); Ulf Swenson (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm), Karen Wilson (The Royal Botanical Garden, Sydney).

How to cite FLORICAL:

FLORICAL (Morat et al. 2012 ; Munzinger et al. 2025).

Morat P., Jaffré T., Tronchet F., Munzinger J., Pillon Y., Veillon J.-M. & Chalopin M. 2012. The taxonomic reference base 'FLORICAL' and characteristics of the native vascular flora of New Caledonia. Adansonia sér. 3 34(2): 177-219. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/a2012n2a1

Munzinger J., Morat Ph., Jaffré T., Gâteblé G., Pillon Y., Rouhan G., Bruy, D., Veillon J.-M., & M. Chalopin. 2025 [continuously updated]. FLORICAL: Checklist of the vascular indigenous flora of New Caledonia. http://publish.plantnet-project.org/project/florical