Dracophyllum traversii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Ericales
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Dracophyllum
- Species
- Dracophyllum traversii
- Scientific Name
- Dracophyllum traversii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dracophyllum traversii
Dracophyllum traversii, commonly known as mountain neinei, grass tree, and pineapple tree is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae. It is a deciduous tree (or, in some cases, a shrub) endemic to New Zealand. It reaches a height of 0.2–13 m (0.66–42.65 ft) and has leaves which form tufts at the end of its branches. It has a lifespan of between 500 and 600 years.
Similar to some other Dracophyllum species, it has a candelabra-shaped canopy; long, thin, green leaves; and a prominent pyramid-shaped inflorescence. It has tiny red flowers, between 500 and 3000 on each panicle, and equally tiny reddish-brown dry fruit. D. traversii inhabits a variety of forest and shrubland types, from lowland to subalpine, in gorges, on cliffs, and on mountainsides. It has a range that stretches from Waima forest at the top of New Zealand's North Island, down to Otago and Fiordland in the South Island.
It was first described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1867, and was placed by Walter Oliver in the subgenus Dracophyllum in 1928. A cladistic analysis using genetic sequencing was published in 2010, revealing that D. traversii was indeed related to D. latifolium as Oliver had thought. The status of D. pyramidale as a synonym is disputed by taxonomic institutions and botanists, with Plants of the World Online not recognising the positions of the New Zealand Organism Register, New Zealand Plant Conversation Network, and various New Zealand botanists.
...Dracophyllum traversii in languages:
- Chinese
- 高山龍草樹
- English
- mountain neinei
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dracophyllum acerosum
- Dracophyllum adamsii
- Dracophyllum alticola
- Dracophyllum arboreum
- Dracophyllum balansae
- Dracophyllum cockayneanum
- Dracophyllum cosmelioides
- Dracophyllum densum
- Dracophyllum elegantissimum
- Dracophyllum filifolium
- Dracophyllum filifolium × D recurvum
- Dracophyllum fiordense
- Dracophyllum fitzgeraldii
- Dracophyllum involucratum
- Dracophyllum kirkii
- Dracophyllum latifolium
- Dracophyllum lessonianum
- Dracophyllum longifolium
- Dracophyllum mackeeanum
- Dracophyllum macranthum
- Dracophyllum marmoricola
- Dracophyllum matthewsii
- Dracophyllum menziesii
- Dracophyllum milliganii
- Dracophyllum minimum
- Dracophyllum muscoides
- Dracophyllum oceanicum
- Dracophyllum oliveri
- Dracophyllum ophioliticum
- Dracophyllum ouaiemense
- Dracophyllum paludosum
- Dracophyllum palustre
- Dracophyllum patens
- Dracophyllum pearsonii
- Dracophyllum politum
- Dracophyllum pronum
- Dracophyllum prostratum
- Dracophyllum pubescens
- Dracophyllum pyramidale
- Dracophyllum ramosum
- Dracophyllum recurvum
- Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium
- Dracophyllum sayeri
- Dracophyllum scoparium
- Dracophyllum secundum
- Dracophyllum sinclairii
- Dracophyllum strictum
- Dracophyllum subulatum
- Dracophyllum townsonii
- Dracophyllum traversii
- Dracophyllum trimorphum
- Dracophyllum uniflorum
- Dracophyllum urvilleanum
- Dracophyllum verticillatum
- Dracophyllum viride
- Dracophyllum × arcuatum
- Dracophyllum × densiflorum
- Dracophyllum × erectum
- Dracophyllum × insulare
- Dracophyllum × marginatum
- Dracophyllum × saxicola
- Dracophyllum × varium
- Dracophyllum × vulcanicum

















































































































































