Kingdom Plantae Family Proteaceae Higher classification Proteas | Order Proteales Tribe Knightieae Rank Genus | |
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Similar Knightia excelsa, Proteas, Carnarvonia, Darlingia, Beauprea | ||
Knightia is a small genus of the family Proteaceae endemic to New Zealand. One extant species, K. excelsa (Rewarewa) is found in New Zealand, while a fossil species from upper Miocene deposits in Kaikorai has been described as Knightia oblonga. Two species from New Caledonia have been transferred to the genus Eucarpha by Lawrie Johnson and Barbara Briggs in their influential 1975 monograph "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family".
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