Swampy Hill, 4 miles North of Dunedin, Taieri Co., Otago
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-45.8023 170.487
Verbatim locality:
Swampy Hill, 4 mls N. of Dunedin, Taieri Co.,
Verbatim collector:
R. & E.F. Melville & G. Baylis. (Melville 6926)
Standardised collector:
Ronald Melville; Elsie F. Melville; Geoffrey T. S. Baylis
Verbatim date:
14.4.62
Start date:
1962-04-14
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Otago Land District
Altitudes:
from 610m
Habitat:
In snow tussock with Epilobium alsinoides, Gentiana 6918 and Cassinia vauvilliersii.
Notes:
Prostrate to decumbent shrub, berries magenta pink.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Wake Forest University Herbarium.
Gaultheria macrostigma (Colenso) D.J.Middleton
Revision of Gaultheria L. from Australia and New Zealand
Dissertation by Catherine M. Bush, 2010