New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
Short communication
First record of a vascular plant from the Bounty
Islands: Lepidium
oleraceum (nau,
Cook’s scurvy grass) (Brassicaceae)
Jacinda Amey
Department of Zoology
University
of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin
9054, New Zealand
Janice M. Lord
Department of Botany
University
of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin
9054, New Zealand
Peter de Lange
Terrestrial Conservation Unit
Department of Conservation
Private Bag 68908
Newton
Auckland
1145,
New Zealand
Abstract The discovery of a
population of
the New Zealand
endemic Lepidium oleraceum
(nau, Cook’s scurvy grass; Brassicaceae)
on Funnel Island,
in the Centre Group of the Bounty
Islands
archipelago is reported. A single plant was also sighted growing on the
top of
Molly Cap. This represents the first record of a vascular plant species
on the
inhospitable Bounty Islands
archipelago. The location of the plants in sheltered, north-facing
crevices may
explain why they were overlooked by previous visits. However, given
this
population’s morphological and genetic affinities to southern South
Island and Stewart Island
populations of L.
oleraceum sens. str. rather than to forms of that species known
from the
nearby Antipodes Islands
archipelago, it is more likely that this is a recent colonisation from
that
part of New Zealand.
New Zealand
Journal of Botany, 2007, Vol. 45: 87–90
0028–825X/07/4501–0087 © The Royal Society
of New Zealand
2007
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