CHR 474245 – Echium pininana Webb & Berthel.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 474245
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
01 March 1995
Database record updated:
28 November 2002
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Echium pininana Webb & Berth.
Determiner:
Sykes WR
Identification date:
1991-12-12 (Verbatim: 12-DEC-1991)
Preferred name:
Echium pininana Webb & Berthel.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Lamiales
Family:
Boraginaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Auckland, Mount Albert, 7 Ferner Avenue, Ross Ferguson's garden
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-36.88687 174.71768
Verbatim locality:
Auckland, Mt Albert, Ross Fergusons's Garden
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 492/91
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
2-DEC-1991
Start date:
1991-12-02
Land District:
North Auckland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated.
Notes:
Giant monocarpic herb c.4m high. "Trunk" 6-8cm diameter and about a metre to leaves. Leaves scabrous. Corolla mauve-blue (pink in bud), c.1.5cm long to apex of the longerupper lobes, i.e. zygomorphic. Anthers pink, long exserted flowers very densely packed.
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