''Dracophyllum filifolium'' is a species of shrub or tree endemic to the North, South, and Stewart Islands of New Zealand. It was first described by

Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of ...

in 1853 and gets the specific epithet ''filifolium'' for its leaves being like a filament. In the heath family

Ericaceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

, it inhabits mountain slopes, saddles and ridges and reaches a height of . A 2017 assessment using the

New Zealand Threat Classification System The New Zealand Threat Classification System is used by the Department of Conservation to assess conservation priorities of species in New Zealand. The system was developed because the IUCN Red List, a similar conservation status system, had some ...

classified it as “Not Threatened,” giving it an estimated population of more than 100,000.

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filifolium ''Filifolium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. There is only one known species, ''Filifolium sibiricum'', native to Japan, Korea, Mongolia, China ( Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi) and parts of Asiatic Russia ( ...

Endemic flora of New Zealand {{Ericaceae-stub