Archeria traversii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Ericaceae |
Genus: | Archeria |
Species: | A. traversii
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Binomial name | |
Archeria traversii |
Archeria traversii is a species of shrub in the family Ericaceae.
Archeria traversii is scattered locally across southern New Zealand (the South Island and Stewart Island), where it is endemic. [2] It is notably absent from Marlborough and much of the eastern South Island. [3]
It is largely found in shrublands and conifer-broadleaf forests, at lowland to montane altitudes. Flowering takes place from December to February, and fruiting from February to April. [4]
The phylogeny of the genus remains unknown, but morphologically A. traversii appears to most closely resemble A. racemosa, the only other New Zealand species in the genus.
Archeria traversii is currently regarded as non-threatened. [6]
Archeria was named by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1844 after the nineteenth-century Tasmanian botanist W. Archer. The specific epithet traversii comes from William Travers, a 19th-century New Zealand naturalist and politician, after whom the plant species was named. [3]
Archeria traversii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Ericaceae |
Genus: | Archeria |
Species: | A. traversii
|
Binomial name | |
Archeria traversii |
Archeria traversii is a species of shrub in the family Ericaceae.
Archeria traversii is scattered locally across southern New Zealand (the South Island and Stewart Island), where it is endemic. [2] It is notably absent from Marlborough and much of the eastern South Island. [3]
It is largely found in shrublands and conifer-broadleaf forests, at lowland to montane altitudes. Flowering takes place from December to February, and fruiting from February to April. [4]
The phylogeny of the genus remains unknown, but morphologically A. traversii appears to most closely resemble A. racemosa, the only other New Zealand species in the genus.
Archeria traversii is currently regarded as non-threatened. [6]
Archeria was named by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1844 after the nineteenth-century Tasmanian botanist W. Archer. The specific epithet traversii comes from William Travers, a 19th-century New Zealand naturalist and politician, after whom the plant species was named. [3]