Niutao
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| Niutao The Niutoa atoll is a closed, former ring atoll with a land area of 2,53 km sq. In the western part of the island is, as a last remain of the former lagoon, a smaller brackish pool, surrounded with mangrove stands, with three tiny islets. |
| Flora of Niutao (incomplete) (green = pictures) Cassytha filiformis, Cocos nucifera, Cordia subcordata, Heliotropium foertherianum, Hernandia nymphaeifolia, Lepturus repens, Lumnitzera littorea, Microsorum grossum, Pandanus tectorius, Pemphis acidula, Pisonia grandis, Rhizophora stylosa, Scaevola taccada, Ximenia americana |
| Referenzen: - K. A. Rogers: 'Occurence of phosphate rock and associated soils in Tuvalu, Central Pacific' |