Victor Dmitrievich Zotov was a New Zealand botanist.
Carmichaelia carmichaeliae is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in South Island of New Zealand. It is classified as having the "Nationally Critical" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
Carmichaelia glabrescens is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It was first described by Donald Petrie in 1921 and was formally known as Notospartium glabrescens.
Carmichaelia torulosa is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in New Zealand.
Eric John Godley OBE, FRSNZ, Hon FLS, Hon DSc (Cantuar.), AHRNZIH was a New Zealand botanist and academic biographer. He is best known for his long-running series of in the popular magazine New Zealand Gardener and his "Biographical notes" series that ran in the New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter and which is the prime resource on the lives of many New Zealand botanists.
Ruth Mason was a New Zealand botanist specialising in the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater plants. She was employed at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for 35 years undertaking research into aquatic plants, pioneering new techniques for plant preservation and collecting over 13,000 plant specimens in the field. She was awarded life membership by the New Zealand Ecological Society.
Coprosma fowerakeri is a species of Coprosma found in the South Island of New Zealand described in 2003. It was previously included within C. pseudocuneata.
Carmichaelia stevensonii, the cord broom or weeping broom, is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in the north east of the South Island of New Zealand. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Carmichaelia muritai, common name coastal tree broom, is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in the South Island of New Zealand.
Orocrambus crenaeus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1885. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it is known from the South Island. The habitat consists of alpine grasslands.
Leptinella filiformis, or slender button daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family, found only in the north-eastern part of the South Island of New Zealand. Thought to be extinct by the 1980s, it was rediscovered growing on a Hanmer Springs hotel lawn in 1998, and in the wild in 2015.
Carmichaelia curta is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found in New Zealand. It is classified as having the "Nationally Critical" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
Veronica obtusata, the northern hebe, is a flowering plant belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. It is native to northern New Zealand, and was first described by Thomas Cheeseman in 1916.
Parsonsia praeruptis is a non-twining, non-climbing Parsonsia, endemic to New Zealand and is a member of the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is found only in the shrubland of the Surville Cliffs, North Cape Peninsula, where it scrambles through "openly branched, prostrate windswept shrub(s)".
Helichrysum lanceolatum is a species of plant endemic to New Zealand, commonly known as niniao.
Melicytus orarius is a species of flowering plant in the violet family Violaceae.
Kunzea sinclairii, also known as the Great Barrier Island kānuka, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Great Barrier Island in the Auckland Region, New Zealand.
Festuca luciarum is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is endemic to New Zealand, found in the eastern North Island at higher altitudes.
The Auckland Region of New Zealand is home to numerous endemic flora and fauna. Many of these species have ranges restricted to the Waitākere Ranges, Great Barrier Island, Little Barrier Island and the Mokohinau Islands. A number of species have restricted ranges that include areas outside of the Auckland Region, such as Buller's shearwater and Pycroft's petrel, or organisms such as the brown teal / pateke and stitchbird / hihi which have recently increased ranges due to conservation efforts.
Margaret Jane Annand Bulfin (1920–1996) was a Scotland-born New Zealand botanist, botanical collector, and mountaineer. She was an expert on New Zealand seeds and their germination, viability and identification, and as a Scientist at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research she performed extensive field work including vegetation surveys in different areas of New Zealand. She co-authored the book Seeds of New Zealand Gymnosperms and Dicotyledons, and was awarded the Allan Mere Award for her contributions to New Zealand botany.
