Rymandra Salisb. ex Knight
Sources: ING,[2] UniProt,[3] IPNI,[4] GRIN[5]
Knightia is a small genus of the family
Proteaceae endemic to New Zealand, named in honor of
Thomas Andrew Knight.[6] One extant species, K. excelsa (rewarewa) is found in
New Zealand. Two further Knightia species are found in
New Caledonia, although they were placed in 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",[7] a placement supported in a 2006 classification of the Proteaceae.[8] A fossil species from upper Miocene deposits in
Kaikorai has been described as Knightia oblonga.[9]Knightia has been placed in the tribe
Roupaleae of the subfamily
Grevilleoideae.[8]
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