Metrosideros perforata

Metrosideros perforata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Metrosideros
Species: M. perforata
Binomial name
Metrosideros perforata
(J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Druce
Synonyms

Leptospermum perforatum
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Melaleuca perforata
(J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) G.Forst.
Metrosideros scandens
Sol. ex Gaertn.
Metrosideros tenuifolia
Colenso
Metrosideros vesiculata
Colenso

Metrosideros perforata,[1] commonly called white rata, climbing rata or akatea[2], is one of twelve Metrosideros species endemic to New Zealand. It is one of three white flowering rātā vines (the others being large white rātā and white rātā)

An example of a specific location of occurrence is within New Zealand's Hamilton Ecological District in association with such alliant understory plants as Blechnum discolor, Blechnum filiforme and Doodia media.[3]

References

  1. Simpson, P. 2005. Pōhutukawa and Rātā: New Zealand's Iron-Hearted Trees. Te Papa Press. 346 pp.
  2. "akatea". Māori Dictionary. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  3. C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Crown Fern: Blechnum discolor, Globaltwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg

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