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Metrosideros nervulosa; photograph (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2009-10-24

Metrosideros nervulosa C.Moore & F.Muell.

Mountain Rose

Myrtaceae · Norfolk Is.

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Metrosideros nervulosa, photograph (c) Leon Perrie, some rights reserved (CC BY)Metrosideros nervulosa, photograph (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY)Metrosideros nervulosa, photograph (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY)Metrosideros nervulosa, photograph (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY)Metrosideros nervulosa, photograph (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY)Metrosideros nervulosa, photograph (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY) 14 photographs ›

Summary

Metrosideros nervulosa, commonly known as the mountain rose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It occurs in shrubland or low forest, mainly at altitudes of 300–875 m on the main peaks of the island. It prefers sunny positions on exposed ridges or in the forest canopy.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Metrosideros nervulosa", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Metrosideros

Metrosideros is a genus of approximately 60 trees, shrubs, and vines in the family Myrtaceae, mostly found in the Pacific region. Most of the tree forms are small, but some are exceptionally large, the New Zealand species in particular. The name derives from the Ancient Greek metra or "heartwood" and sideron or "iron". More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Metrosideros", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km (1 at sea or ice); three are needed for an envelope. 7 of the 76 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNorfolk Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-31.572, 159.082 · in the densest population, 76 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 76 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 71 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 76 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Leon Perrie, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5).

Other Metrosideros 20 in the reference

Metrosideros albiflora Metrosideros albiflora White Flowering Rātā Photo: CC BY, Hannah Whittall Metrosideros angustifolia Myrtaceae Metrosideros bartlettii Metrosideros bartlettii Bartlett's rata Photo: CC0, author not statedMetrosideros carminea Metrosideros carminea Crimson rata Photo: CC BY, Chris ParminterMetrosideros colensoi Metrosideros colensoi Myrtaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMetrosideros collina Metrosideros collina Vunga Photo: CC BY, Mike BowieMetrosideros diffusa Metrosideros diffusa Small ratavine Photo: CC BY, 大澤風季 ohsawa_FukiMetrosideros excelsa Metrosideros excelsa New Zealand Christmastree Photo: CC BY, Leon PerrieMetrosideros fulgens Metrosideros fulgens Scarlet rātā vine Photo: CC BY, Stephen HartleyMetrosideros kermadecensis Metrosideros kermadecensis Pohutukawa Photo: CC0, author not statedMetrosideros laurifolia Metrosideros laurifolia Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Rosario DouglasMetrosideros operculata Metrosideros operculata Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Irisa Hudson all 21 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Nania nervulosa. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
C.Moore & F.Muell.
Native to
Norfolk Is.
Wild records
76 in range · 71 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km (1 at sea or ice); three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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