Checklist of indigenous vascular plant species recorded from the Chatham Islands
Publication type
PDF plant list
Description
This is a Department of Conservation checklist of indigenous vascular plant taxa recorded from the Chatham Islands. It is based on collections resulting from a visit to Chatham (Rekohu) Island by P. J. de Lange & G. M. Crowcroft (February - March 1996) and information stored on the Wellington Conservancy Chatham Island flora database. That database holds extensive literature references and herbarium records gathered from the major New Zealand herbaria. It is intended that this checklist will update previous assessments of the island’s flora written by von Mueller (1864), Cockayne (1902), Given & Williams (1984), and the unpublished work of Druce & Kelly (1973).
Publication date
06/07/1999
This plant list has been compiled by the stated observer(s) and been provided to NZPCN for public use in good faith. NZPCN cannot guarantee that data contained in these lists are up to date or accurate. Most species lists are not corroborated with herbarium specimens. Note, species lists are not typically an exhaustive presence/absence survey of an area and often may focus on a single habitat or only contain species visible at a particular time of year (for example, spring annual herbs may go unobserved during much of the year). These lists should not be solely relied on for the purpose of assessing environmental effects or for preparing restoration plans - for this work a site visit is critical.
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