Garnotia cheesemanii, the Rarotongan garnotia grass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae that is endemic to the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific.[3][4]
Garnotia cheesemanii var. rarotongensis(Whitney) Santos (1950)
Garnotia rarotongensisWhitney (1937)
The species is classified as Critically Endangered because of its extremely restricted range and population fragmentation.[1]
Range and habitatedit
It is endemic to the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.[5] It grows on rocky well-drained substrates with sparse vegetative cover on a north-east facing basaltic cliff under the trees rata (Metrosideros collina) and pua (Fagraea berteroana), between 350 and 450 meters elevation.[1]
Taxonomyedit
It was described by Eduard Hackel in: Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 6: 303. in 1903.[6][7]
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