Gunnera hamiltonii - Citizendia

Gunnera hamiltonii

Kingdom:	Plantae
Phylum:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Gunnerales
Family:	Gunneraceae
Genus:	Gunnera
Species:	G. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Dicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of Flowering plants whose Seed typically has two embryonic leaves or Cotyledons There Gunnerales is an order of Flowering plants. In the APG II system (2003 it contains two genera Gunnera and Myrothamnus Gunneraceae is the Botanical name for a family of Flowering plants. Gunnera is a genus of Herbaceous Flowering plants some of them gigantic hamiltonii

Binomial name

Gunnera hamiltonii
Kirk, 1895

Gunnera hamiltonii is a creeping herbaceous plant in the family Gunneraceae, with clusters of small (2 to 7 cm) grey-brown leaves forming a dense mat. A herbaceous plant (or in botanical use a Herb) is a Plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of In Biological classification, family ( Latin Gunneraceae is the Botanical name for a family of Flowering plants. A centimetre ( American spelling: centimeter, symbol cm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one hundredth Small green flowers are followed by red berries in the autumn.

It is one of the rarest plants in its native New Zealand, with Southland and Stewart Island/Rakiura representing two of the suspected 5 remaining natural habitats. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Southland (Murihiku is the name of New Zealand 's southernmost region and is also the name of a district within that region Natural fertilisation of these plants is now difficult as the male and female plants are separate.

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