Xeronema

Xeronema
Poor Knights lily flower
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Monocots
Order:Asparagales
Family:Xeronemataceae
Genus:Xeronema
Brongn. & Gris
Species
Synonyms[1]

Scleronema Brongn. & Gris 1864 not Benth. 1862

Xeronema is a genus of flowering plants containing two species, Xeronema callistemon (the Poor Knights lily) from the Poor Knights Islands and Taranga Island in New Zealand, and Xeronema moorei from New Caledonia.

Xeronema callistemon plants (on the skyline) growing on one of the Poor Knights Islands

The Poor Knights lily (X. callistemon) is endemic to the Poor Knights Islands and Taranga Island in the north of New Zealand. It was discovered in 1924. The Poor Knights lily has large bottlebrush flower clusters that grow horizontally. The clusters begin growing vertically and then bend sideways. Bright red flowers grow upward from the stalk, with bright orange pollen. The plant can reach a height of one metre tall and across.

X. moorei is found in the mountains of New Caledonia.

The APG IV system, of 2016, accepts this genus as constituting its own family Xeronemataceae. It places this in the order Asparagales, in the clade monocots.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385. ISSN 0024-4074.


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