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Leptospermum scoparium; Maui; Myrtus communis; death; growth habit; habitats; new species; peat; peatlands; rust diseases; stigma; vascular plants; New Zealand
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... Leptospermum repo de Lange & L.M.H.Schmid sp. nov. (Myrtaceae) is segregated from L. scoparium J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (sensu lato). The new species is endemic to the peat bogs of the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, and adjacent eastern ranges of the northern portion of Te Ika a Maui / North Island, Aotearoa / New Zealand. The new species belongs to the northern Te Ika a Maui / North Island clade of L. scop ...
Metrosideros; branches; chloroplasts; monophyly; new combination; new species; paraphyly; plant taxonomy; New Zealand
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... A molecular phylogeny to test the monophyly of Nephelolejeunea by using previously published nrITS, rbcL and trnL–F sequence data demonstrated that Nephelolejeunea is paraphyletic with respect to Siphonolejeunea. Nephelolejeunea and Siphonolejeunea are, therefore, merged and, as the latter name has priority, new combinations in Siphonolejeunea are made for 10 species. The valid publication of the ...
... Kunzea (Myrtaceae) trees and shrubs, generally called kānuka, grow across most of Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ). With the exception of K. sinclairii, an offshore island endemic, kānuka had been treated as an Australasian species K. ericoides. However, a 2014 taxonomic revision recognized ten species, all endemic to NZ. Kānuka chemistry is less studied than that of its closest relative in NZ, mānuka (L ...
Senecio; conspecificity; data collection; lectotypes; morphometry; nomen novum; phylogeny; New Zealand
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... As presently delimited, the endemic New Zealand species Senecio glaucophyllus Cheeseman shows considerable morphological and ecological diversity. Two morphologically similar forms associated with this taxon are found in northwest Nelson (South Island), of which one is often filed in herbaria as S. glaucophyllus subsp. glaucophyllus. The other form has been informally recognised as S. aff. glaucop ...
Anemone (plant); chromosome number; geographical distribution; host specificity; indigenous species; lectotypes; phylogeny; New Zealand; South America
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... A rational taxonomic circumscription of genera in tribe Anemoneae (Ranunculaceae) is briefly discussed. It is concluded that, in view of the morphological diversity of the group and recent molecular phylogenetic findings, a moderately narrow approach to the re-circumscription of genera earlier included in Anemone sensu lato is preferable, in particular, with the recognition of the lineage with the ...
Graphidaceae; Ocellularia; Thelotrema; ascospores; chemistry; flora; forest health; lichens; monitoring; new combination; new species; taxonomic revisions; Australia; New Zealand
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... Ocellularia (Graphidaceae) is a genus of crustose lichens comprising c.200 species, four known from Australia and New Zealand. Based on recent collections from northern North Island, we describe a fifth species Ocellularia jacinda-arderniae, which is a member of the O. bicuspidata complex. This complex is characterised by peculiar, appendiculate ascospores and a psoromic acid chemistry. Two furthe ...
... We investigated the phylogeography of the New Zealand endemic monotypic coastal tree Entelea arborescens (whau; Malvaceae). The distribution of whau in the southern North Island and South Island has been suggested to result from pre-European Māori cultivation. Whau wood is extremely buoyant and was used to make fishing floats and rafts. We sequenced two chloroplast loci and the nuclear ITS region ...
Riccia; conservation status; constructed wetlands; flora; mosses and liverworts; Australia; New Zealand
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... Riccia (Ricciaceae) is a widespread, cosmopolitan genus of thalloid liverworts. Here we document the presence of R. cavernosa Hoffm. in New Zealand for the first time. A full description based on New Zealand specimens is provided. Riccia cavernosa was discovered in New Zealand in February 2016 growing on the margins of a series of artificial wetlands constructed to aid in the recovery of a threate ...
... We present a phylogenetic revision of the Sticta filix morphodeme in New Zealand. This non-monophyletic group of early diverging clades in the genus Sticta is characterized by a stalked thallus with a green primary photobiont and the frequent formation of a dendriscocauloid cyanomorph. Traditionally, three species have been distinguished in New Zealand: S. filix (Sw.) Nyl., S. lacera (Hook. f. & T ...
... Four shrub species, including three newly described, are recognised in the Melicytus obovatus complex from central New Zealand. The new species segregated from M. obovatus sens. str. are M. improcerus, M. orarius and M. venosus, and are recognised based on a morphological assessment of growth habit, leaf and floral characters following detailed herbarium, cultivation and field studies. Melicytus o ...
... The distribution of parasitic plants is governed by the availability and distribution of suitable host species. Here we report the distributions, host associations and genetic variability of the three endemic New Zealand species of Korthalsella (Viscaceae) mistletoes. These species differ in their primary host and in the breadth of secondary and tertiary hosts. Korthalsella salicornioides is the m ...
Kunzea; ecology; ethnobotany; hybridization; islands; New Zealand
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... A revision of the New Zealand Kunzea ericoides complex is presented. This paper is the final of a series that has explored the systematics of the New Zealand Kunzea complex using cytological and molecular variation, as well as experimental hybridisations between postulated segregates. As a result of those studies ten species, all endemic to New Zealand, are recognised; seven of these are new. One ...
... AIM: To date, there have been few studies investigating the phylogeography of forest trees that are widely distributed in New Zealand. Our main objective was to examine the phylogeographic distribution of chloroplast DNA from New Zealand Sophora trees with respect to known biogeographical regions, proposed refugia and species boundaries. A second objective was to investigate the origins of the sou ...
Poaceae; conservation status; forests; genetic variation; grasses; indigenous species; intergenic DNA; introns; new species; New Zealand
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... A new species of the New Zealand endemic grass Simplicia, Simplicia felix is described. The new species is segregated from and compared with Simplicia buchananii and Simplicia laxa. Simplicia felix occurs mostly in lightly shaded areas of seasonally dry alluvial forest. A distribution map and an assessment of the conservation status of the new species are presented. Genetic variation in the genus ...
Pittosporum; alleles; correlation; genetic drift; genetic variation; inbreeding; loci; microsatellite repeats; outcrossing; population size; threatened species; New Zealand
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... Pittosporum obcordatum (Pittosporaceae; heart-leaved kōhūhū) is an endemic New Zealand plant species that is classified as Threatened–Nationally Vulnerable. It has a disjunct distribution and is only known from relatively few and small populations. Using 10 Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat markers (ISSRs), we studied patterns of genetic diversity and genetic differentiation among eight out of the c. 1 ...
... Ramalina leiodea and R. luciae are reported from mainland New Zealand for the first time. A revised key to the Ramalina of the New Zealand Botanical Region is offered to accommodate R. leiodea , the recently confirmed Kermadec Islands records of R. microspora , and the reinstated R. ovalis . ...
... A species tree phylogeny of the Australian/New Zealand genus Centipeda (Asteraceae) is estimated based on nucleotide sequence data. We analysed sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA (ETS, ITS) and three plasmid loci (ndhF, psbA-trnH, and trnL-F) using the multi-species coalescent module in BEAST. A total of 129 individuals from all 10 recognised species of Centipeda were sampled throughout the specie ...
Sicyos; habitat conservation; islands; Australia; New Zealand
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... Morphometric data have long suggested the existence of three species of Sicyos in Australia and New Zealand. Molecular data now corroborate this and place the three species in the context of the remaining 72 species of Sicyos, most of them in the New World. We here describe and illustrate Sicyos undara I.Telford & P.Sebastian from northern Queensland and S. mawhai I.Telford & P.Sebastian from New ...
... Because of its remoteness and mid-latitude position, New Zealand lacks access to the tropical climates that might have ensured straightforward survival for frost-sensitive species during glacial times. Nevertheless, the New Zealand lowland flora retains a substantial complement of plants sourced in the tropics. While there have been extinction pulses for elements of the frost-sensitive flora under ...