Botanical Information

Selected publications


Beadel, S., Ecroyd, C.E., de Lange, P.J., Cashmore, P., Shaw, W, & Crump, S. (2009). Checklist of indigenous and naturalised vascular plants in the Bay of Plenty. Rotorua Botanical Society Special Issue No. 2. Rotorua Botanical Society, 99 p.

Barton, I.L., Nicholas, I.D., Ecroyd, C.E. (2007). Paulownia. (Forest Research Bulletin No. 231). Ensis, Rotorua, New Zealand. 72 p.

Ecroyd, C.E., Brockerhoff, E. (2005). Floristic changes over 30 years in a Canterbury Plains kānuka forest remnant, and comparison with adjacent vegetation types. N.Z. J. Ecology, 29(2), 279-289.

Brockerhoff, E.G., Ecroyd, C.E., Leckie, A. & Kimberley, M.O. (2003). Diversity and succession of vascular understory plants in exotic Pinus radiata plantation forests in New Zealand. Forest Ecology and Management, 185(3), 307-326.

Ecroyd, C.E. (1996). The ecology of Dactylanthus taylorii and threats to its survival. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 20(1), 81-100.

Clarkson, B.D., Smale, M.C., Ecroyd, C.E. (compilers) (1991). Botany of Rotorua. Forest Research Institute, Rotorua, 132 p.

Knowles, F.B., Ecroyd, C.E. (1985). Species of Cortaderia (pampas grasses and toetoe) in New Zealand. (FRI Bulletin 105). Forest Research Institute. 24 p.

The FRI Bulletin 124 Series — a series of quality, attractive, colour booklets that provide essential information on a range of forest tree species grown in New Zealand.


Plant identification keys and guides


We have developed and are testing an interactive Key to Cultivated Pines. The key, built in Lucid software, includes photos of needles, buds and cones of each of the 90 species.

Key to Paulownia
Identification guide to Cortaderia species

Selected botanical links