New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Short communication Reinstatement of Pseudopanax kermadecensis (W.R.B. Oliv.) Philipson (Araliaceae)

W. R. SYKES

Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
P.O. Box 69
Lincoln
Canterbury, New Zealand

Abstract Pseudopanax kermadecensis is re- instated as an endemic species to the Kermadec Islands, having been reduced to varietal status under P. arboreus (Sykes 1977). The plant had become rare and confined to a very specialised habitat because of browsing goats, but their recent elimination has allowed it to recover and occupy a wider range of habitats. The diagnostic vegetative characters which had been thought to be a reflection of the environment of this atypical habitat are now seen to occur in plants of this species wherever it grows, indicating a genetic basis.

B92031 ; Received 16 June 1992; accepted 5 February 1993
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1993, Vol. 31: 19-20
0O28-825X/93/3101-OO19 $2.50/0 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 1993

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