Eiao vegetation map, Marquesas Island, French Polynesia.Natural formations:  Pandanus forest and groves
  Pisonia forest and groves
  Cordia and Thespesia coastal forest
  Thespesia riparian forest
  Hibiscus forest
  Cordia lutea shrubland
  Sparsely vegetated rocks, with Leptochloa and Nicotiana
 Sapindus groves
 Coastal grassland on limestone
Scattered post-degradation natural formations:  Open dodonea shrubland
  Waltheria indica shrubland
  Open Nephrolepis and Pityrogramma shrubland
Anthropic formations:  Acacias shrubland
  Low herbs of eroded limestone
  Low herbs of clayey eroded area
  Low herbs of stony eroded area
 Casuarina groves
 Syzygium cumini groves
 Coconut tree groves
Larrue, Sébastien; Jean-François Butaud, Frédéric Alain Jacq (January 2013) "7. Flora and Vegetation on the Small Uninhabited Islands of the Marquesas Archipelago (French Polynesia): Relics of Dry Biota Threatened by Biological Invasions" in Larrue,  Sébastien , ed. (in English)   Biodiversity and Societies in the Pacific Islands (PDF), Aix-Marseille:  Presses Universitaires de Provence, p. 150 Retrieved on 24 January 2022. ISBN:  978-2-85399-877-2.
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Jean-François Butaud
Frédéric Alain Jacq