Systematics Collections Data

CHR 3447 – Hydrocleys nymphoides (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Buchenau

Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 3447
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
21 July 2005
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Hydrocleis nymphoides
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Hydrocleys nymphoides (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Buchenau
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Alismatales
Family:
Limnocharitaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Te Aroha (settlement)
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):  -37.537553  175.686686 
Verbatim locality:
Te Aroha
Verbatim collector:
B. Neve
Standardised collector:
B. Neve
Verbatim date:
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
South Auckland Land District
Native lands:
Ngāti Hako
Ngāti Hauā
Ngāti Maru (Hauraki)
Ngāti Rāhiri Tumutumu
Ngāti Tamaterā
Ngāti Tara Tokanui
Ngāti Whanaunga
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:   T13 49- 03-  (WGS84 -37.538484 175.707609)
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Cheeseman. --Contributions to Knowledge of Flora of N.Z. Trans. N.Z. Inst. 46, 1914 Hydrocleis nymphaeoides Buchen. I am indebted to Mr. Neve for numerous specimens of this handsome water-plant, which he informs me is now plentiful in several lagoons or backwaters near the Thames River, at Te Aroha, and is apparently rapidly increasing. According to inquiries kindly made for my by Mr. Neve, it was planted nearly twenty years ago by a Mr. Wood in a lagoon on his property about a mile and a half from Te Aroha. In this locality it now covers an area of more than an acre in extent, and has become a considerable nuisance, blocking up drains and water-channels. The beauty of the flowers has induced sevearal settlers to transfer it to other localities near Te Aroha. In all of these it is rapidly increasing, and there is every probability of its spread in suitable places in the Thames Valley. It is a common plant in South America, ranging from Venezuela to Buenos Ayres, and is now widely cultivated in gardens.
Cheeseman
Georeference (derived):
Estimated map ref.: NZMS 260 (T13 48- 01-) T13 49- 03- (T13 51- 05-)
Cruickshank J., 21.7.05
Permissions
Project permits
Project title:
Local Contexts - Allan Herbarium (CHR)
Reference:
CHR Collection - Local Contexts
Biocultural (BC) Notice