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Monoao (Dracophyllum subulatum)
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Monoao

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Dracophyllum subulatum has an avoid recommendation in the evidence table. Its fire support remains limited evidence, and the related plants section names same-form alternatives.

For monoao, those facts form a deliberately separated reading: computed direction first, source depth second, comparison third. Visiting the genus index widens the catalogue, not this record's accepted basis. The subulatum card therefore does not treat a similar form as corroboration or let another genus member supply missing rows; its recommendation stays tied only to the evidence already cited here for this compact monoao species account.

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Form
shrub
Region
New Zealand
Rated in
Global; New Zealand
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global; New Zealand

2. Why this plant is relevant here

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Avoids (1)

Listed without a rating (4)
Corroboration (4 rows from 1 source)
  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    4 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Cui2020b: Cui, X., Paterson, A. M., Alam, M. A., Wyse, S. V., Marshall, K., Perry, G. L. W., & Curran, T. J. (2020b). Shoot-level flammability across the Dracophyllum (Ericaceae) phylogeny: evidence for flammability being an emergent property in a land with little fire. New Phytologist, 228, 95-105

      Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Cui2020b-17; sampling summer and autumn.

      • “time to flaming (s): 1.1”

        FLAMITS record 2113; Ignitability measurement.

      • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 695.5”

        FLAMITS record 2134; Combustibility measurement.

      • “burning duration (s): 75.9”

        FLAMITS record 2155; Sustainability measurement.

      • “estimated burnt biomass (%): 88.1”

        FLAMITS record 2176; Consumability measurement.

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