Sclerotheca is a genus of plants native to various islands in the South Pacific. Nine of the ten known species are French Polynesia, the tenth to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.[1][2]
Sclerotheca raiateensis, commonly known as tiare apetahi and formerly known as Apetahia raiateensis, is a species of plant in the family Campanulaceae...
are predominant in the understory and in open areas. Tiare apetahi (Sclerotheca raiateensis) is a shrub known only from the Temehani Plateau. It is known...
French Polynesia in the South Pacific now considered to be a synonym of Sclerotheca. Apetahia longistigmata (F.Br.) E.Wimm - Marquesas Apetahia margaretae...
Palmerella - California Porterella - SW N America Ruthiella - New Guinea Sclerotheca - Society Islands Siphocampylus - Neotropics Solenopsis - S Europe and...
trees of Metrosideros, Astronidium, and Alstonia and the endemic shrub Sclerotheca raiateensis, with an herb layer composed mostly of sedges (Cyperaceae)...
include typical Oceanian genera like Metrosideros, Fitchia, Bidens, and Sclerotheca, as well as genera with New Zealand affinities like Hebe, Olearia, Haloragis...