New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
A new species of Olearia (Asteraceae) from Waima Forest, Northland,
New Zealand
P. B. Heenan
Landcare Research
P.O. Box 69
Lincoln 8152, New Zealand
E. K. Cameron
Auckland Museum
Private Bag 92018
Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract Olearia crebra is described as a new
species. It is distinguished from other New Zealand species of Olearia
by a set of characters including large leaves and the capitula having numerous
involucral bracts, florets, and ray florets. O. crebra is restricted
to montane parts of Waima Forest, western Northland, where it occurs on Hauturu,
Te Raupua, Mt Misery, and upper Whirinaki Valley. As the populations of O.
crebra are small and localised, and because there is a continuing need
to manage browsing mammals in Waima Forest, it is listed as a Nationally
Endangered species.
Keywords Asteraceae; Olearia; O. crebra;
new species; taxonomy; New Zealand flora
B02032 Received 10 April 2002; accepted 17 June 2002; published 28 November
2002
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2002, Vol. 40: 535-542
0028-825X/02/4004-0535 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand
2002
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