| Xeronema callistemon | |
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| Poor Knights lily, Otari-Wilton's Bush, Wellington, New Zealand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Xeronemataceae |
| Genus: | Xeronema |
| Species: | X. callistemon
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| Binomial name | |
| Xeronema callistemon W.R.B. Oliv
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Xeronema callistemon is a species of flowering plant endemic to the Poor Knights Islands and Taranga Island in the north of New Zealand.[1] It was discovered in 1924 and has a common name Poor Knights lily. The plant is listed as vulnerable in the 1997 IUCN Red List of Plants,[2] but as of October 2010 is not listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[3]
- ^ Xeronema callistemon f. callistemon, Xeronema callistemon f. bracteosa
- ^ 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants, ISBN 2-8317-0328-X p.746
- ^ http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine and search for Xeronema callistemon