Rhabdothamnus solandri is a small shrub of the family Gesneriaceae endemic to New Zealand.

It is the only plant of the genus Rhabdothamnus, and the only member of Gesneriaceae native to New Zealand.

Its common names are New Zealand gloxinia and, in the Māori language, taurepo, mātātā, and waiū-atua.

[4] The silvereye, which is a 19th-century immigrant to New Zealand that has not co-evolved with this and other native plants, has a beak too short to pollinate the flowers, but sometimes rips through the sides of the flowers to steal nectar.

The local extinction of the bellbird and stitchbird in the upper North Island in around 1870, and the retreat of tūī to higher canopy and more nectar-rich exotic flowers, has caused a long-term reduction in the reproduction of the shrub, which requires pollination to produce seeds.