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Country: New Caledonia
State:
Province:
Territory: Nord
Transcription Notes:
Gymnogramme [ellipties?] Baker? I have found no Gymnogramme with a name that comes close to this in The Plant List.
Jenguin
Balansa,1872
[coordinates: -20.694803, 164.946928]
[Benjamin Balansa, a botanist]
From 1868 to 1872 Balansa stayed overseas in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Balansa
From the following map from the places he visited in New Caledonia, there is a place called Jenguin in the northern side of the island. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8490470k/f1.item.zoom
This place is now the city of Hienghene. It it possible to pinpoint the place really precisely on an actual map from the map of his journey : around a 1,5 km radius from -20.694803, 164.946928
It is in the Province Nord.