🌿 Family

Asteliaceae

11 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Liliopsida › Asparagales › Asteliaceae

Astelia fragrans (common names bush lily, bush flax, kakaha) is the most common Astelia species in New Zealand.

Astelia hastata Colenso is a dioecious epiphytic tufted plant that is ecologically important and was traditionally used by Māori.

Astelia nervosa is a herbaceous New Zealand native plant with distinct colored leaves, flowers, and orange mature fruit.

Astelia alpina (pineapple grass) is an edible alpine Australian dioecious plant, often a post-fire pioneer species.

Astelia trinervia is a rhizomatous tufted perennial plant native to New Zealand, found in the North Island’s Hamilton Ecological District.

Astelia banksii A.Cunn. is an evergreen silver-green coastal New Zealand plant with seasonal flowers and berries.

Astelia chathamica is a silver-green perennial flowering plant from New Zealand’s Chatham Islands, grown as an awarded ornamental garden plant.

Astelia graminea is a non-threatened perennial grass-like plant endemic to northern South Island, New Zealand.

Astelia nivicola is a tufted alpine herb native to New Zealand's South Island, first described posthumously in 1925.

Astelia argyrocoma is a grassy shrub with silvery leaves, endemic only to high-elevation cloud forests of Kauaʻi.

Astelia menziesiana is a clumping non-woody flowering plant endemic to Hawaii, with separate male and female plants.

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