Metrosideros elegans

{{Short description|Species of tree}}

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| image_caption = Metrosideros elegans growing at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, New Zealand

| genus = Metrosideros

| species = elegans

| authority = (Montrouz.) Beauvis.Beauvis. Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 26: 39 1901

| synonyms =

• Carpolepis elegans (Montrouz.) JWDawson(Montrouz.) J.W. Dawson, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia, sér. 4 6: 466 1984 [1985]
• Ballardia elegans Montrouz.Montrouz. 19220+ser. 2+ 10: 205 1860

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Metrosideros elegans is a species of plant endemic to New Caledonia in the family Myrtaceae. The tree has yellow flowers and grows most commonly between about 300 and 1,500 metres altitude in forest or shrubland. It is sometimes epiphyte at first.{{cite journal|last1=Dawson|first1=J.W.|authorlink1=John Dawson (botanist)|title=Pacific capsular Myrtaceae 5. The Metrosideros Complex: M. elegans Group|journal=Blumea|date=1972|volume=20|issue=2|pages=323–326|url=http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/564984|accessdate=27 September 2015}}