New Zealand - International Plant Societies, Organizations and Resources

Plant Societies

Rotorua Botanical Society
http://www.wildland.co.nz/botanical.htm

Wellington Botanical Society
http://wellingtonbotsoc.wellington.net.nz/

New Zealand Society of Plant Biologists (formerly the society of Plant Physiologists)
http://nzspp.hort.cri.nz/

New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/

SYSTANZ (Systematics Association of New Zealand)
http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/bio/SYSTANZ/index.html

New Zealand Ecological Society
http://www.nzes.org.nz/

Universities with strong botany programs

Massey University (including the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution – one of seven Centres of Research Excellence funded by the government)
http://www.massey.ac.nz/
http://awcmee.massey.ac.nz/

University of Otago
http://www.otago.ac.nz/

University of Canterbury
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/

Victoria University
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/home/index.asp

University of Auckland
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/

Crown Research Institutes

Landcare Research (systematics and ecology of native NZ flora and fauna)
http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/

HortResearch (applied research of horticultural plants/fruit crops)
http://www.hortresearch.co.nz/

AgResearch (applied research of agricultural plants important to NZ)
http://www.agresearch.co.nz/

Journals

New Zealand Journal of Botany, published by the Royal Society
http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjb/

New Zealand Journal of Ecology, published by the New Zealand Ecological Society
http://www.nzes.org.nz/nzje/