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{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
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|taxon = Paphia (plant)
|authority = [[Seem.]] (1864)<ref name = powo/>
|type_species = ''[[Paphia vitiensis]]''
|type_species_authority = Seem.
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = 21 accepted species; see text
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'''''Paphia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s in family [[Ericaceae]]. It includes 21 species which range from New Guinea to Queensland, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, and Fiji.<ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:41091-1 ''Paphia'' Seem.] ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 21 June 2023.</ref>
Species include climbers and lianas, scandent [[epiphyte]]s, shrubs, and one arborescent species, ''Paphia alberti-eduardii''. Members of the genus are distinguished by flowers in fascicles, with a calyx that is not winged and typically articulated with the pedicel. Filaments and anthers of alternating stamens are similar, and tubules on the anthers are well-developed.<ref name = powo/>
Sixteen species are native to New Guinea, all of which are [[Endemism|endemic]] to the island. They grow in montane forests, including mossy forest, forest edges, and subalpine thickets, from 1300 to 3800 meters elevation.<Ref name = powo/>
The genus was first described by [[Berthold Carl Seemann]] in 1864, with the [[type species]] ''Paphia vitiensis''. Many of the species in the genus were formerly classed in genus ''[[Agapetes]]'', and were reclassified by [[Peter F. Stevens]] in 2004.<ref name = powo/>
==Species==
21 species are currently accepted.<ref name = powo/>
*''[[Paphia alberti-eduardii]]'' {{small|(Sleumer) P.F.Stevens}} – eastern New Guinea ([[Mount Albert Edward (Papua New Guinea)|Mount Albert Edward]])
*''[[Paphia brassii]]'' {{small|(Sleumer) P.F.Stevens}} – New Guinea
*''[[Paphia carrii]]'' {{small|(Sleumer) P.F.Stevens}} – New Guinea
*''[[Paphia costata]]'' {{small|(C.H.Wright) P.F.Stevens}} – New Guinea
*''[[Paphia helenae]]'' {{small|(F.Muell.) Schltr.}} – eastern New Guinea
*''[[Paphia kudukii]]'' {{small|(Veldkamp) P.F.Stevens}} – eastern New Guinea
*''[[Paphia megaphylla]]'' {{small|P.F.Stevens}} – eastern New Guinea
*''[[Paphia meiniana]]'' {{small|(F.Muell.) Schltr.}} – northeastern Queensland
*''[[Paphia neocaledonica]]'' {{small|(Guillaumin) P.F.Stevens}} – New Caledonia
*''[[Paphia paniensis]]'' {{small|S.Venter & Munzinger}} – New Caledonia
*''[[Paphia prostrata]]'' {{small|(P.F.Stevens) P.F.Stevens}} – New Guinea
*''[[Paphia rubrocalyx]]'' {{small|(Sleumer) P.F.Stevens}} – New Guinea
*''[[Paphia sclerophylla]]'' {{small|(Sleumer) P.F.Stevens}} – eastern New Guinea
*''[[Paphia shungolensis]]'' {{small|(P.F.Stevens) P.F.Stevens}} – New Guinea
*''[[Paphia sleumeriana]]'' {{small|(P.F.Stevens) P.F.Stevens}} – eastern New Guinea
*''[[Paphia stenantha]]'' {{small|Schltr.}} – eastern New Guinea
*''[[Paphia viridiflora]]'' {{small|Schltr.}} – northeastern New Guinea
*''[[Paphia vitiensis]]'' {{small|Seem.}} – Fiji (Viti Levu)
*''[[Paphia vitis-idaea]]'' {{small|(Sleumer) P.F.Stevens}} – eastern New Guinea
*''[[Paphia vulcanicola]]'' {{small|P.F.Stevens}} – Solomon Islands
*''[[Paphia woodsii]]'' {{small|P.F.Stevens}} – eastern New Guinea
==References==
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[[Category:Flora of Papuasia]]
[[Category:Ericaceae genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Berthold Carl Seemann]]
[[Category:Vaccinioideae]]