“…Oreocnide achenes have fleshy receptacles, that might promote inter-island by birds or rats (Balakrishnan, 2011;Nago et al, 2019;Osuri et al, 2017), whereas some Oreocnide propagules appear capable of long-distance dispersal in seawater (Wu et al 2018). These factors might have acted to prevent allopatric speciation during most of 16 / 27 the Pleistocene, and to maintain gene flow within the widespread species O. rubescens and O. integrifolia.…”