New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter
- Author
- Cameron, E.K.; de Lange, P.J.; Given D.R.; Johnson, P.N.; Ogle, C.C.
- Year
- 1995
- Publisher / Organisation
- New Zealand Botanical Society
- Number
- 39
- Pages
- 15-28
- Summary
- A revision of the 1993 New Zealand Threatened and Local plant lists is presented. A total of 319 vascular plant taxa are considered at risk within the New Zealand botanical region using existing IUCN Red Data Book categories of threat. Threatened taxa are distributed as follows; Presumed Extinct 9 taxa, Critical 20 taxa, Endangered 37 taxa, Vulnerable 62 taxa, Rare 79 taxa, Insufficiently Known 28 taxa, Taxonomically Indeterminate 84 taxa. Within the New Zealand category of Local, 142 taxa are listed. Fifty taxa listed by Cameron et al. (1993) as under some level of threat have been deleted from this list.