Slopes below The Remarkables Mountain Range Skifield
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-45.0232 168.793
Verbatim locality:
Slopes below The Remarkables Mountain Range Skifield.
Verbatim collector:
M.Rixon, P.Thomas, V.Tregidda, M.F.Watson
Standardised collector:
M. Rixon; P. Thomas; V. Tregidda; M. F. Watson
Verbatim date:
22 Feb 1998
Start date:
1998-02-22
Land District:
Otago Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
45°1.39´ S 168°47.59´ E (WGS84 -45.023167 168.793167)
Altitudes:
from 1350m
Habitat:
Tussock grassland.
Notes:
Variable perennial herb forming domed rosette to 80cm across, often solitary but also in clumps with up to 7 flowering stems. Stipules long, but sometimes shorter in other specimens. Infructescence to 1.5m, usually narrowly conic, but sometimes broad at the base. Differences between this plant and Aciphylla horrida were difficult to distinguish in the field (hybridisation?). This specimen more typical of A. aurea with long stipules. Sap milky.
Specimen notes
Herbarium history:
RBGE New Zealand Australian Wxpidition. ENZAT No. 512