Deltaria

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox |status = EN |status_system = IUCN3.1 |status_ref = <ref name = iucn>Amice, R., Barrière, R., Butin, J.-P., Fleurot, D., Lagrange, A., Lannuzel, G., Letocart, I. & Suprin, B. 2019. ''[https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/156764683/156776553 Deltaria brachyblastophora]''. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T156764683A156776553. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T156764683A156776553.en. Accessed 7 March 2025.</ref> |display_parents = 2 |genus = Deltaria |parent_authority = Steenis |species = brachyblastophora |authority = Steenis }}

'''''Deltaria brachyblastophora''''' is a species of shrub in the Thymelaeaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia and the only species of the genus '''''Deltaria'''''.<ref>Morat, P., T. Jaffré, F. Tronchet, J. Munzinger, Y. Pillon, J. M. Veillon, and M. Chalopin (2012). The taxonomic reference base Florical and characteristics of the native vascular flora of New Caledonia. Adansonia 34 (2): 179–221.</ref> It is related to ''Arnhemia'', ''Gonystylus'', ''Lethedon'' and ''Solmsia''.<ref>Beaumont, A. J., T. J. Edwards, J. Manning, O. Maurin, M. Rautenbach, M. C. Motsi, M. F. Fay, M. W. Chase, and M. Van Der Bank. (2009) Gnidia (Thymelaeaceae) Is Not Monophyletic: Taxonomic Implications for Thymelaeoideae and a Partial New Generic Taxonomy for Gnidia.” Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (4): 402–17.</ref>

The species grows only in the Koumac region in the north-west of Grande Terre. It grows in scrubland and gallery forest in the dry forest ecoregion from 12 to 600 metres elevation.<ref name = iucn/>

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Category:Endemic flora of New Caledonia Category:Monotypic Malvales genera Category:Octolepidoideae Category:Thymelaeaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1959 Category:Taxa named by Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis