Lake Rotoiti, West Bay, Nelson Lakes National Park,
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-41.801756 172.828527
Verbatim locality:
Nelson Lakes National Park, Lake Rotoiti, West Bay, ca. 500 m NE of Buller River source
Verbatim collector:
Allan J. Fife 8285
Standardised collector:
Allan J. Fife
Verbatim date:
6-OCT-1987
Start date:
1987-10-06
Land District:
Nelson Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō
Ngāti Kōata
Ngāti Kuia
Ngāti Rārua
Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu
Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Rangitāne o Wairau
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
N29 955 342 (WGS84 -41.799043 172.825623)
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
41°48´ S 172°49´ E (WGS84 -41.8 172.816667)
Abundance:
Common
Altitudes:
from 609m
Habitat:
On large plutonic boulder at margin of lake.
Abundance:
Common
Keywords:
Dry; Sunny
Notes:
C.fr. Associated with Racomitrium crispulum. (I have mounted AJF 8285 (ex Lake Rotoiti, Nelson Lakes Nat. Park) and find the median laminal cells of veg. leaves to have between 1 and 4 papillae, and the apical cells of vegetative leaves to be mostly truncate or forked by papillae. The veg. leaves here are mostly not reflexed and therefore I conclude that this specimen is true Hedwigia ciliata. (AJF 8285 has the leaf hair points less papillose at their apices than below...and therefore I have not seriously considered that it could be var. leucophaea. Allan Fife, Jan 2000.)