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A recent collection from the remote Western Reef together with specimens gathered from the Sisters and Forty Fours confirm that S. sterquilinus is also present on the Chatham Islands. Hitherto this species was known mainly from New Zealand on islands in the Cook Strait, Wellington Harbour, and from the west coast of the South Island from Westport south to Point Elizabeth…
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Further to last years surprise discovery of the Poor Knights spleenwort (Asplenium pauperequitum) on the Forty Fours – the most easterly of the Chatham Island archipelago, botanists doing field work on the Chatham Island have discovered this Nationally Endangered fern at two sites on the main Chatham Island.....
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Can you help us plug photo gaps in the website plant factsheets? A list is provided here of species for which we are still looking for a photo. Please send any images you have on this list through to the Network.
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A major study of nuclear DNA (DNA C-values), chromosome numbers and polyploidy within the New Zealand indigenous grasses (Poaceae) has just been published in volume 96 of the University of Oxford managed Annals of Botany.
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An unusual and apparently highly threatened liverwort has just been formally described. This new species of Frullania was discovered on the canopy twigs of Bartlett’s rata (Metrosideros bartlettii J.W.Dawson) - itself a highly threatened tree discovered in 1975 by the late John Bartlett.