The exotic vine, Clematis vitalba L.(F. Ranunculaceae), has been in forest reserves around
Taihape in the Rangitikei Ecological Region of the central North Island, New Zealand, for …

The need to sustain the ecological values of rivers is widely recognised and embraced in
policy and legislation. Here we examine a widely used approach for evaluating effects of …

Aim Puzzling features of plants are sometimes explained as legacies of co‐evolution with
extinct herbivores. One example is the convergent evolution of a small‐leaved, twiggy …

Abstract Although New Zealand is a biodiversity hotspot, there has been little genetic
investigation of why so many of its threatened and uncommon plants have naturally disjunct …

The abundance of the divaricate growth form in New Zealand has been interpreted as either
(a) the response of an isolated flora to cool, dry, Plio-Pleistocene climates; or (b) a defense …

We sought to taxonomically characterise New Zealand's plant rarity within the context of the
entire flora, and then to examine any geographical and ecological predispositions the rare …

Eight species are recognised in the second part of a revision of Carmichaelia. These are C.
appressa, C. arbarea, C. australis, C. hollowayi, C. kirkii, C odorata, C. petriei, and C …

The foliar frost resistance of Pittosporum eugenioides, P. obcordatum, P. tenuifolium, and P.
crassifolium increased from-6° C to-8° C in March and April to between-9° C and-10° C in …

Common in cultivation in New Zealand and elsewhere, natural populations of kōwhai
ngutukākāClianthus puniceus (Fabaceae), an endangered New Zealand shrub, are rare in …

Hebe cupressoides is an endemic shrub of the rain-shadow eastern mountains of New
Zealand's South Island where it is a component of shrubland communities on recent …