Dracophyllum oliveri

Dracophyllum oliveri
Conservation status
Not Threatened (NZ TCS) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Ericaceae
Genus:	Dracophyllum
Species:	D. oliveri
Binomial name
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz

Dracophyllum oliveri is a species of shrub or small tree endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. It was first described by Gustaf Einar Du Rietz in 1920 and gets the specific epithet oliveri after Walter Oliver. In the heath family Ericaceae, it inhabits mountain slopes, gullies, and plateaus and reaches heights of between 1 and 4 m. ^{[2] [3]} A 2017 assessment using the New Zealand Threat Classification System classified it as “Not Threatened", giving it an estimated population of 100,000. ^[1]

References

1. "Assessment details for Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz". New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS) . Department of Conservation (New Zealand). 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
2. "Dracophyllum oliveri". New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
3. Venter, Stephanus (March 2021). "A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 34 (2): 115–116. doi:10.1071/SB19049_CO. ISSN   1030-1887.