Systematics Collections Data

CHR 171851 – Ribes odoratum H.L.Wendl.

Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 171851
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
18 August 2015
Database record updated:
18 June 2022
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Ribes odoratum Wendl.
Determiner:
AJ Healy
Identification date:
1968-02-26 (Verbatim: 26/2/1968)
Preferred name:
Ribes odoratum H.L.Wendl.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Rosales
Family:
Grossulariaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Berberis vulgaris
Determiner:
[Thomson GM]
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Berberis vulgaris L.
Active:
no
Vernacular name:
Common Barberry
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
East Taieri
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):  -45.8986  170.34 
Verbatim locality:
East Taieri
Verbatim collector:
G.M. Thomson
Standardised collector:
G. M. Thomson
Verbatim date:
Oct. 1873
Start date:
1873-10
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Otago Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):  -45.899  170.339 
Notes:
An escape from cultivation in one or two places. The fruit contains Oxalic acid, whitl the bark & stems yield the bitter principle Berberine.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Ribes odoratum Wendl. These speciemsn are the basis for G.M. Thomson's record (Trans.N.Z. Inst., 7: 1875: 372) for Berberis vulgaris L. from "Abandoned gardens in the Taieri Plain". They constitute the first record for New Zealand of Ribes odoratum Wendl.
AJ Healy, 26/2/1968
Permissions
Project permits
Reference:
CHR Collection - Local Contexts
Biocultural (BC) Notice