The vascular flora of Aorangi Island, Poor Knights Islands, northern New Zealand

An annotated vascular flora of 282 taxa for Aorangi Island, Poor Knights Is lands, is presented. Additional records (20 taxa) from Tawhiti Rahi Island, the other major island in the archipelago, are listed separately, resultin g in a combined Poor Knights vascular flora of 302 taxa. Two new combinatio ns, Wahlenbergia littoricola subsp. vernicosa and Xeronema callistemon f. b racteosa, are made for plants previously treated as W. vernicosa and X. cal listemon var. bracteosa, respectively. Only one taxon, Xeronema callistemon f. bracteosa, is provisionally accepted as endemic to the Poor Knights Isl ands. The control of the more serious weed species on the island is discuss ed. A case is made for including the Mokohinau Islands within the Poor Knig hts Ecological Region.