Nelson / Tasman’s Endemic Species
This is our guide to the Nelson Tasman’s regions endemic plant species prior to European settlement.
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Bidibid, hutiwai, piripiri - Acaena anserinifolia
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Titoki - Alectryon excelsus
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Yellow mistletoe, pirita, piriraki - Alepis flavida
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Mountain Alseuosmia, Small Toropapa - Alseuosmia pusilla
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Kātote, Smith’s tree fern - Alsophila smithii – (Cyathea smithii)
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Ponga, Silver Fern - Alsophila tricolor (Cyathea dealbata)
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Hells Bells, New Zealand Everlasting Daisy - Anaphalioides bellidioides (Helichrysum bellidioides)
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Gossamer grass - Anemanthele lessoniana
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Scented holy grass, karetu - Anthoxanthum redolens (Hierochloe redolens)
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New Zealand Celery - Apium prostratum subsp. prostratum var. filiforme
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Jointed Wire Rush, Oioi - Apodasmia similis (Leptocarpus similis)
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Makomako, wineberry - Aristotelia serrata
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Jointed fern - Arthropteris tenella
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Hen and chicken fern, pikopiko, mother spleenwort - Asplenium bulbiferum
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Hen & chicken fern - Asplenium gracillimum
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Huruhuru whenua - Asplenium oblongifolium
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Bush Flax, Kakaha - Astelia fragrans
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Bush Flax - Astelia grandis
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Grey saltbush - Atriplex cinerea
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Estuary needle grass, coastal immorality grass, buggar grass - Austrostipa stipoides
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Tawa - Beilschmiedia tawa
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Purua grass, Caldwell’s clubrush - Bolboschoenus caldwellii
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Purua grass - Bolboschoenus medianus
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Bushman's friend, Rangiora - Brachyglottis repanda
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Pink bindweed - Calystegia sepium
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Shore bindweed, shore convolvulus, rauparaha - Calystegia soldanella
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Climbing convolvulus, NZ bindweed - Calystegia tuguriorum
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Fine-leaved hook sedge - Carex banksiana
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Cockayne’s sedge - Carex cockayneana
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Common sedge - Carex comans
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Forest sedge - Carex dissita
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Lax bastard grass, hook sedge - Carex erythrovaginata (Uncinia laxiflora)
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Glen Murray tussock, trip me up - Carex flagellifera
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Forster’s sedge - Carex forsteri
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Cutty grass, rautahi - Carex geminata
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Forest sedge - Carex lambertiana
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Rautahi, cutty grass - Carex lessoniana
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Māori sedge - Carex maorica
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Sand sedge - Carex pumila
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Coastal forest sedge, Raoul’s sedge - Carex raoulii
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Pukio, Purei - Carex secta
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Forest sedge, Solander’s sedge - Carex solandri
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Bastard grass, kamu - Carex uncinata
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Swamp sedge, pukio - Carex virgata
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Common broom - Carmichaelia australis
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Scented broom, leafy broom - Carmichaelia odorata
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Putaputaweta, marbleleaf - Carpodetus serratus
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Centella - Centella uniflora
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Hunangamoho, Snow Grass - Chionochloa conspicua
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Clematis - Clematis foetida
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White clematis, puawananga - Clematis paniculata
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Sand coprosma, tātaraheke - Coprosma acerosa
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Thin-leaved coprosma - Coprosma areolata
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Thick leaved coprosma - Coprosma crassifolia
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Tier coprosma - Coprosma dumosa
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Hūpiro, stinkwood, shit shrub - Coprosma foetidissima
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Kanono, raurekau - Coprosma grandifolia
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Mikimiki, Yellow wood - Coprosma linariifolia
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Karamu - Coprosma lucida
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Small seeded coprosma - Coprosma microcarpa
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Coprosma - Coprosma obconica
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Leafy coprosma - Coprosma parviflora
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Mingimingi, common coprosma - Coprosma propinqua
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Taupata - Coprosma repens
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Mingimingi, Twiggy coprosma - Coprosma rhamnoides
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Streamside coprosma - Coprosma rigida
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Karamu - Coprosma robusta
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Round leaved coprosma - Coprosma rotundifolia
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Toetoe - Austroderia richardii
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Swamp coprosma - Coprosma tenuicaulis
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Ti kouka, cabbage tree - Cordyline australis
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Forest Cabbage Tree, Ti Ngahere - Cordyline banksii
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Tutu - Coriaria arborea
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Korokio, wire-nettting bush - Corokia cotoneaster
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Karaka - Corynocarpus laevigatus
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Kiwikiwi, creek fern - Cranfillia fluviatilis
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Giant Umbrella Sedge, Upoko-Tangata - Cyperus ustulatus
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Kahikatea, White pine - Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
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Rimu, Red pine - Dacrydium cupressinum
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Mercury Bay weed, dichondra - Dichondra repens
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Wheki ponga - Dicksonia fibrosa
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Wheki - Dicksonia squarrosa
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Kohekohe, New Zealand mahogany - Didymocheton spectabilis
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Diplazium australe
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Matagouri, Matakoura, Wild Irishman - Discaria toumatou
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Horokaka, New Zealand ice plant - Disphyma australe
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Akeake - Dodonaea viscosa
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Inanga - Dracophyllum filifolium
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Hinau - Elaeocarpus dentatus
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Pōkākā - Elaeocarpus hookerianus
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Sharp spike sedge - Eleocharis acuta
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Whau - Entelea arborescens
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Waiu-atua, sand milkweed - Euphorbia glauca
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Wiwi, knobby club rush - Ficinia nodosa
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Golden Sand Sedge, Pingao, Pikao - Ficinia spiralis
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Kiekie - Freycinetia banksii
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Konini, Kotukutuku, Tree Fuchsia - Fuchsia excorticata
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Scrambling fuchsia - Fuchsia perscandens
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Red Beech, Tawhairaunui - Fuscospora fusca
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Black beech, tawhairauriki - Fuscospora solandri
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Hard beech, tawhairaunui - Fuscospora truncata
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Cutting sedge, tupari maunga - Gahnia pauciflora
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Gahnia, māpere - Gahnia xanthocarpa
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Snowberry, Fools Beech - Gaultheria antipoda
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Hangehange - Geniostoma ligustrifolium
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Kapuka, broadleaf - Griselinia littoralis
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Puka, Akapuka - Griselinia lucida
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Hebe - Hebe leiophylla
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Koromiko, Narrow leaved hebe - Hebe stenophylla
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Koromiko - Hebe stricta
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Hebe subfulvidia (Hebe divaricata)
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Hebe - Hebe venustula
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Hebe - Hebe vernicosa
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Porokaiwhiri, pigeonwood - Hedycarya arborea
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Niniao - Helichrysum lanceolatum
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Narrow-leaved lacebark - Hoheria angustifolia
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Swamp pennywort - Hydrocotyle novae-zeelandiae
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Hypolepis ambigua
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Thread fern, climbing hard fern, pānoko - Icarus filiformis
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Green mistletoe, pirita - Ileostylus micranthus
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Isolepis prolifera
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Leafless rush, wiwi - Juncus australis
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Common rush, Juncus gregifolrus, Wiwi - Juncus edgariae
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Sea rush - Juncus kraussii
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Giant Rush, Wiwi, leafless rush - Juncus pallidus
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Leafless rush - Juncus pauciflorus
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Broom rush, fan-flowered rush - Juncus sarophorus
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Leafless mistletoe, dwarf mistletoe - Korthalsella lindsayi
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Dwarf mistletoe - Korthalsella salicornioides
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Kanuka - Kunzea ericoides
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Pukatea - Laurelia novae-zelandiae
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Mingimingi, Prickly Mingimingi - Leptecophylla juniperina
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Manuka - Leptospermum scoparium
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Shore cotula - Leptinella dioica
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Mingimingi, tall mingimingi - Leucopogon fasciculatus
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Iris, Mikoikoi, Native Iris, Tukauki - Libertia ixioides
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Moore’s iris, Moore’s mikoikoi - Libertia mooreae
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Rauhuia, New Zealand linen flax, kaho - Linum monogynum
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New Zealand lobelia, shore lobelia - Lobelia anceps
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Panakenake, pratia - Lobelia angulata
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Crown fern, petipeti, piupiu - Lomaria discolor
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Ramarama - Lophomyrtus bullata
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Rohutu - Lophomyrtus obcordata
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Silver Beech, Tawhai - Lophozonia menziesii
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Jointed twig-rush - Machaerina articulata
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Baumea - Machaerina rubiginosa
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Kawakawa, pepperwood - Macropiper excelsum
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Poataniwha - Melicope simplex
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Wharangi - Melicope ternata
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Porcupine Shurb - Melicytus alpinus
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Thick-leaved mahoe - Melicytus crassifolius
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Māhoe-wao, narrow-leaved māhoe - Melicytus lanceolatus
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Swamp mahoe, manakura - Melicytus micranthus
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Melicytus obovatus
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Mahoe, whiteywood - Melicytus ramiflorus
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Rātā - Metrosideros colensoi
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White rata, akakura - Metrosideros diffusa
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Rata vine, Scarlet rata, Climbing rata, akatawhiwhi - Metrosideros fulgens
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White Rata, akatea, lowland rata - Metrosideros perforata
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Southern Rata - Metrosideros umbellata
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Bush rice grass, oat grass - Microlaena avenacea
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Bamboo grass, bamboo - Microlaena polynoda
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Meadow Rice Grass, Paatiitii - Microlaena stipoides
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Pōhuehue, large-leaved muehlenbeckia - Muehlenbeckia australis
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Small-leaved pōhuehue, wire vine - Muehlenbeckia complexa
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Pohuehue, creeping pohuehue - Muehlenbeckia ephedroides
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Ngaio - Myoporum laetum
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Mapou - Myrsine australis
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Weeping mapou - Myrsine divaricata
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Rohutu - Neomyrtus pedunculata
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Black maire - Nestegis cunninghamii
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White maire - Nestegis lanceolata
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Common tree daisy, glossy tree daisy - Olearia arborescens
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Mountain akeake - Olearia avicenniifolia
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Akiraho - Olearia paniculata
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Heketara, tree daisy - Olearia rani var. colorata
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Glaucous goosefoot - Oxybasis ambigua
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Coastal tree daisy, Tauhinu - Ozothamnus leptophyllus
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Lace fern, scented fern - Paesia scaberula
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Gully fern, feather fern, piupiu - Pakau pennigera
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Swamp kiokio - Parablechnum minus
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Kiokio, horokio, palm leaf fern - Parablechnum novae-zelandiae
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Small kiokio - Parablechnum procerum
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Parapolystichum microsora
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New Zealand jasmine, Kaiwhiria - Parsonsia capsularis
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Kaiku, Kaiwhiria, New Zealand Jasmine - Parsonsia heterophylla
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Kohia, NZ passionfruit - Passiflora tetrandra
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Kaikomako - Pennantia corymbosa
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Scarlet mistletoe, korukoru, pirita, roeroe - Peraxilla colensoi
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Red mistletoe, pikirangi, pirita, roeroe, pirinoa - Peraxilla tetrapetala
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Tūtunāwai, Swamp willow weed - Persicaria decipiens
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Mountain Flax, Wharariki - Phormium cookianum
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Flax, Harakeke - Phormium tenax
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Mountain toatoa, mountain celery pine - Phyllocladus alpinus
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Tānekaha, celery pine - Phyllocladus trichomanoides
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Pinātoro - Pimelea urvilleana subsp. urvilleana
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Autetaranga, toroheke, sand pimelea - Pimelea villosa
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Tarata, lemonwood - Pittosporum eugenioides
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Kohuhu - Pittosporum tenuifolium
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Makaka, Marsh Ribbonwood - Plagianthus divaricatus
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Manatu, lowland ribbonwood - Plagianthus regius
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Sand tussock, hinarepe - Poa billardierei
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Silver Tussock, wī - Poa cita
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Hall’s tōtara, tōtara-kiri-kōtukutuku - Podocarpus lataus
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Totara - Podocarpus totara
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Shield fern, pikopiko - Polystichum neozealandicum
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Miro - Prumnopitys ferruginea
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Matai - Prumnopitys taxifolia
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Five Finger, Puahou, Whauwhaupaku - Pseudopanax arboreus
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Horoeka, lancewood - Pseudopanax crassifolius
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Lancewood, Toothed Lancewood - Pseudopanax ferox
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MacIntyres panax - Pseudopanax macintyrei
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Lowland horopito, lowland pepper tree - Pseudowintera axillaris
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Horopito, Pepper tree - Pseudowintera colorata
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Shaking brake, tender brake, Australian bracken - Pteris tremula
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Swamp buttercup - Ranunculus macropus
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Stout netting bush - Raukaua anomalus
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Nikau - Rhopalostylis sapida
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Supplejack, kareao, pirita - Ripogonum scandens
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Tātarāmoa, bush lawyer, white-leaved lawyer - Rubus schmidelioides
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Tātarāmoa, bush lawyer, swamp lawyer - Rubus australis
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Tātarāmoa, bush lawyer - Rubus cissoides
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Leafless lawyer, yellow-prickled lawyer - Rubus squarrosus
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Sea primrose, shore pimpernel, water pimpernel, Maakoako - Samolus repens
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Pate, seven-finger - Schefflera digitata
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Three-square - Schoenoplectus pungens
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Kapungawha, Lake Club-rush, Zebra Rush - Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani
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Selliera, remuremu, half-star, bonking grass - Selliera radicans
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Poroporo, bullibulli - Solanum laciniatum
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Kowhai, limestone kōwhai - Sophora longicarinata
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Small leaved Kowhai - Sophora microphylla
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Mamaku, black tree fern - Sphaeropteris medullaris
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Spinifex, kōwhangatara - Spinifex sericeus
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Large-leaved milk tree, tūrepo - Streblus banksii
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Milkwood - Streblus heterophyllus
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Pātōtara, dwarf mingimingi - Styphelia nesophila
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New Zealand skullcap, shovel mint - Scutellaria novae-zelandiae
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Maire tawake, swamp maire - Syzygium maire
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Kōkihi, New Zealand spinach, tutae-ikamoana - Tetragonia tetragonoides
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Teucridium - Teucridium parvifolium
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Tāpia, pirita, white mistletoe - Tupeia antarctica
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Raupō, bullrush - Typha orientalis
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Ongaonga, Tree Nettle - Urtica ferox
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Kamahi - Weinmannia racemosa
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Hound’s tongue, kowaowao, paraharaha - Zealandia pustulata