New Zealand Plants

110909-11011 North-west Nelson marble clematis (Clematis marmoraria) prominant white male flowers. Distinguished from all other clematis by its restriction to alpine marble karrenfield, where it grows either in crevices in massive marble slabs, or amongst semi-fixed rocks, stones and similar rocky sites in open herbfield. Confined to only two known sites in Kahurangi National Park, north-west Nelson *