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Libertia ixioides, commonly known as mikoikoi and the New Zealand iris, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is endemic to New Zealand; its range covers the North, South, and Stewart Islands. L. ixioides is commonly found in coastal to montane areas; it inhabits cliffs, gullies, ridgelines, rocky places, and the banks of rivers. A perennial herb, it reaches 900 mm in height with leaves reaching 1160 mm in length. It was first described by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in 1824. It gets its specific epithet, ixioides, after its similar resemblance to Ixia species.
Libertia ixioides is endemic to New Zealand. Its range covers the North, South, and Stewart Islands. Cheeseman (1906) claimed that the species is also present on the Chatham Islands, but recent assessments of Libertia dispute this, and argue that the species does not naturally occur on the Chatham Islands. In the North Island, L. ixioides is widespread from North Cape to Wellington, except it is naturally not common in the East Cape (in the Gisborne District). L. ixioides is common throughout the South Island. L. ixioides is also present on Stewart Island. L. ixioides's 2023 assessment in the New Zealand Threat Classification System was "Not Threatened".
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Libertia ixioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
