Fact Sheets Completed For New Zealand Indigenous Vagrants
As currently accepted New Zealand has some 15 indigenous vascular plants which have been classified by the New Zealand Threatened Plant Panel (in 2001) as vagrants. This means that in their wild condition in New Zealand they exist as small populations whose further natural spread is thought to be inhibited by some reproductive or ecological constraint. In most cases the same species remain abundant in countries outside of New Zealand.NZPCN is pleased to announce that full Fact Sheets and images are now available for all 15 species.
Please note that some of these vagrants may be reclassified later this year at some other rank as more recent field survey has shown several of them to have expanded their range. However, for many others there is no recent information on their status, while at least one, a species of orchid (Myrmechila trapeziformis), no longer exists in this country as a natural population.
Posted: 08/01/2007