Metrosideros umbellataCav.

Southern rātā

WFO wfo-0000242617 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Metrosideros umbellata, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. a Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 198588260
Metrosideros umbellata, photographed by Duncan Cunningham
fig. b Duncan Cunningham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189129684
Metrosideros umbellata, photographed by John Barkla
fig. c John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181917232
Metrosideros umbellata, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. d Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178977818
Metrosideros umbellata, photographed by georgiasteel
fig. e georgiasteel, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178302538
Metrosideros umbellata, photographed by John Barkla
fig. f John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177786578
Metrosideros umbellata, photographed by John Barkla
fig. g John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176703313
Metrosideros umbellata, photographed by Duncan Cunningham
fig. h Duncan Cunningham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177658541

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Flowering n = 417 observations

Peak flowering in Jan, from 417 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Agalmanthus umbellata (Cav.) Hombr. & Jacquinot
  • Melaleuca lucida G.Forst.
  • Metrosideros lucida A.Rich.
  • Nani lucida Kuntze
  • Nania lucida (A.Rich.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.