Archeria traversii | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Ericaceae |
Genus: | Archeria |
Species: | A. traversii |
Binomial name | |
Archeria traversii | |
Archeria traversii is a species of shrub in the family Ericaceae.
Archeria traversii is scattered locally across southern New Zealand (the South Island and Stewart Island), where it is endemic. [2] It is notably absent from Marlborough and much of the eastern South Island. [3]
It is largely found in shrublands and conifer-broadleaf forests, at lowland to montane altitudes. Flowering takes place from December to February, and fruiting from February to April. [4]
The phylogeny of the genus remains unknown, but morphologically A. traversii appears to most closely resemble A. racemosa , the only other New Zealand species in the genus.
Archeria traversii is currently regarded as non-threatened. [6]
Archeria was named by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1844 after the nineteenth-century Tasmanian botanist W. Archer. The specific epithet traversii comes from William Travers, a 19th-century New Zealand naturalist and politician, after whom the plant species was named. [3]