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    Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand

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    de Lange, P.J.
    Norton, D.A.
    Heenan, P.B.
    Courtney, S.P.
    Molloy, B.P.J.
    Ogle, C.C.
    Rance, B.D.
    Johnson, P.N.
    Hitchmough, R.
    Date
    2004
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/415

    A reappraisal of the conservation status of the indigenous New Zealand vascular plant flora is presented. The list comprises 792 taxa (34% of New Zealand’s total indigenous vascular flora) in the following categories: Extinct 4 taxa, Acutely Threatened 122 taxa (comprising 47 taxa Nationally Critical, 54 Nationally Endangered, 21 Nationally Vulnerable), Chronically Threatened 96 taxa (comprising Serious Decline 26 taxa, Gradual Decline 70 taxa), At Risk 499 taxa (comprising Sparse 126 taxa, Range Restricted 373 taxa), Non-resident Native 26 taxa (comprising Vagrant 16 taxa, Colonist 10 taxa), and Data Deficient 45 taxa. A further 208 plants are listed as Taxonomically Indeterminate, being those which might warrant further conservation attention once their taxonomic status is clarified. A further 31 named taxa and 18 rated as Taxonomically Indeterminate, and previously considered to be threatened and/or uncommon, are removed from this updated listing. A concordance of plant names is provided. The lists presented use a new threat classification system developed by the New Zealand Department of Conservation for sole use within this country. This paper represents the first time the entire known indigenous vascular flora has been assessed from a conservation perspective since the mid 1970s. A brief analysis of the patterns of rarity exhibited by the taxa listed is presented.

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    New Zealand
     
    threatened vascular
     
    uncommon vascular plants
     
    conservation status
     
    rarity
     
    Fields of Research::270000 Biological Sciences::270400 Botany::270401 Plant systematics, taxonomy and phylogeny
     
    Fields of Research::270000 Biological Sciences::270700 Ecology and Evolution::270708 Conservation and biodiversity
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