Poor Knights lily, Otari-Wilton's Bush, Wellington, New Zealand
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Monocots
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Xeronemataceae
Genus:
Xeronema
Species:
X. callistemon
Binomial name
Xeronema callistemon
W.R.B. Oliv
Poor Knights lily (Xeronema callistemon) plants growing in situFlowering Poor Knights lily in cultivation
Xeronema callistemon is a species of flowering plant endemic to the Poor Knights Islands and Taranga Island in the north of New Zealand.[1] It was discovered in 1924 and has a common name Poor Knights lily. The plant is listed as vulnerable in the 1997 IUCN Red List of Plants,[2] but as of October 2010 is not listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[3]
^Xeronema callistemon f. callistemon, Xeronema callistemon f. bracteosa
^1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants, ISBN 2-8317-0328-X p.746
^http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine and search for Xeronema callistemon
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