New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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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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