General Information

COMMON NAMES: Southseas Glochidion TRADITIONAL NAMES: Ma‘ame (RR); Other Polynesian - Masame (SAM), Mahame (TAH), Molau (FIJ) GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Fiji - Cook Islands (Rarotonga) COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Land, lowlands - mountains (++), coastal to 200m elevation inland SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Material (Wood) KEY FEATURES: ; strongly-ribbed fruit

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea: -
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
+++	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Glochidion concolor Muell.
SYNONYMS: Glochidion ramiflorum [sensu authors]

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); ROSIDAE; Euphorbiales; EUPHORBIACEAE

SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -
POSITIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Material (Wood). Comments: MATERIAL: Timber hardwood excellent, pink.

GENERAL NOTE: Glochidion ramiflorum was formerly given range PNG to Cooks, but Smith [Fiji flora] stops it in Vanuatu, then concolor from Fiji to Cooks. French Polynesia has 22 endemic species [Florence, flora]. Sykes (pers.comm.) has conclor on Rarotonga, and tentatively puts makatea island plants into Glochidion taitense.

Vouchers:
None Recorded.

References:
p.2/473 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova
p.67 Wilder - Flora of Rarotonga
p.373c Whistler - Ethnobotany of the Cook Islands
p.121 McCormack/Kunzle - Rarotonga's Mountain Tracks and Plants

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM03a, zD02

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