Native to New Zealand North, New Zealand South (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
New Zealand, Waikato
-37.534917, 175.740389
Location Remarks
Mount Te Aroha. Domain Trail
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Proteales
Family
Proteaceae
Genus
Knightia
Specific Epithet
excelsa
Authorship
R.Br.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
High
ED 25.2
Sits on a long, isolated branch of the plant tree of life, with relatively few close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
2.9
Global rank
#8,198 of 335,497
Top 3%
Extinction probability
11%