Flora of the Chatham Islands
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The flora of the Chatham Islands consists of around 388 terrestrial plant species, of which 47 are endemic.[1] The Chatham Islands make up the Chatham floristic province of the Neozeylandic Region of the Antarctic Kingdom.
The flora of the Chatham Islands include:
- Phormium chathams (Chatham Island flax)
- Myosotidium hortensia (Chatham Islands forget-me-not)
- Aciphylla dieffenbachii (soft speargrass)
- Astelia chathamica (Chatham Islands kakaha)
- Brachyglottis huntii (rautini)
- Coprosma chathamica (Chatham Islands Karamu)
- Dracophyllum arboreum (tarahinau)
- Dracophyllum scoparium (swamp heath)
- Drosera binata (fork leaved sundew)
- Embergeria grandifolia (giant sowthistle)
- Geranium traversii (Chatham Islands geranium)
- Lepidium oleraceum (Cook's scurvy grass)
- Leptinella featherstonii (button daisy)
- Linum monogynum var. chathamicum (linen flax)
- Hebe chathamica
- Hebe dieffenbachii
- Olearia chathamica (keketerehe)
- Olearia semidentata (swamp aster)
- Olearia traversiorum (Chatham Island akeake or Chatham Island tree daisy)
- Rhopalostylis sapida (nīkau)
- Sophora chathamica (kowhai)
- Utricularia delicatula
- Veronica barkeri (tree koromiko)
References
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- L. Cockayne, The Chatham Islands and Their Plants in New Zealand Plants and Their Story, NZ Department of Education, 1910 New Zealand plants and their story in libraries (WorldCat catalog)