Paphia (plant)

21 accepted species; see text Paphia is a genus of flowering plants in family Ericaceae.

It includes 21 species which range from New Guinea to Queensland, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, and Fiji.

Members of the genus are distinguished by flowers in fascicles, with a calyx that is not winged and typically articulated with the pedicel.

[1] Sixteen species are native to New Guinea, all of which are endemic to the island.

[1] The genus was first described by Berthold Carl Seemann in 1864, with the type species Paphia vitiensis.