CHR 416762 – Fuscospora solandri (Hook.f.) Heenan & Smissen
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 416762
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
01 March 1995
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Nothofagus solandri x N. truncata
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Fuscospora solandri (Hook.f.) Heenan & Smissen
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Fagales
Family:
Nothofagaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Rangitoto ki te Tonga / D'Urville Island
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-40.8637 173.864
Verbatim locality:
D'Urville Island.
Verbatim collector:
G.N. Park
Standardised collector:
G. N. Park
Verbatim date:
6-JAN-1977
Start date:
1977-01-06
Land District:
Nelson Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāti Kōata
Ngāti Kuia
Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Rangitāne o Wairau
Te Atiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 1:
S10 138 727 (WGS84 -40.907032 173.820412)
Habitat:
Coastal ridge beech forest.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Fagaceae (Dr G.N. Park) & G.Y. Walls
The identity of black beech, Nothofagus solandri var. solandri, and mountain beech, N. solandri var. cliffortioides, at their respective low and high altitude extremes in a simple matter. However in many mid-altitude sites the genetic nature of the population is intermediate and more complex. This commonly leads to confusion in the naming of the many vegetation forest types to which both taxa contribute as major dominants. To investigate this some 50 populations have been sampled on the basis of selecting 20 leaves of constant age from the crown foliage of each adult trees. A series of radical measurements has been made of each leaf. In association with D. Rhoades, Applied Mathematics Division, DSIR, a computer programme using Fourrier Analysis has been developed that allows a single equation describing leaf shape to be subjected to statistical analysis. All indications are that Nothofagus solandri is a clinal species, typified by mountain beech. Black beech may have arisen from low frequency introgression between this species and hard red beech.
Botany Division Triennial Report 1976-78 p.45, 1980.
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