Apocynaceae
Parsonsia

Parsonsia flexuosa Baill.

First published in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 765 (1888)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is NW. & E. Central New Caledonia. It is a climber and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

New Caledonia

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Boiteau, P. (1981). Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances 10: 1-303. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • (2025). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.710.2.1. epublication. [Cited as Parsonsia rigida.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • (2025). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.710.2.1. epublication.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0