CHR 480966 – Tropaeolum majus L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 480966
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
01 March 1995
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Tropaeolum majus L.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-03-02 (Verbatim: 2 Mar 1993)
Preferred name:
Tropaeolum majus L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Geraniales
Family:
Tropaeolaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Packe Street, St Albans - Edgeware, Christchurch
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Canterbury, Christchurch, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 86/93
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
2 Mar 1993
Start date:
1993-03-02
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
M35 81- 43- (WGS84 -43.515398 172.647362)
Abundance:
Common
Habitat:
Garden, adventive in herbaceous border.
Abundance:
Common
Notes:
Aromatic herbs with long weak trailing or scrambling stems. Leaves with long twisting petioles; lamina pale beneath. Flowers held +/- horizontally. Sepals light yellow; spurc.3cm long, tapering. A very common adventive and almost a nuisance. Has not been planted for some years.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Corolla somewhat irregular, from the front 4.5-6cm deep (top to bottom) x 4.5 - 6cm, petals usually strongly intricate but sometimes much less so,: claw of lower tree petals slender, 1.3-1.5cm. Petals usually orange, sometimes yellow with orange centre, dark crimson venation on upper two petals which is carried down onto inside of sepals, the flower forming a cup-shaped corolla in lower part.
[Sykes WR]
[Sykes WR]
Georeference (derived):
Estimated map ref.: NZMS 260 M35 81- 43-
Patten C., 10.7.06
Patten C., 10.7.06
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