Christchurch, Addington on island of land between Clarence Street and Whiteleigh Avenue
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.5423 172.61
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Addington on island of land between Clarence Street and Whitely Avenue.
Verbatim collector:
Healy AJ 94/51
Standardised collector:
Arthur J. Healy
Verbatim date:
28-FEB-1994
Start date:
1994-02-28
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
In volunteer growth on waste land. Dry shingly waste land with little vegetation.
Notes:
Plants of all ages. Non-flowering young plants, small plants as in this specimen flowering when 1.10m tall, and scattered large, multi-headed growing spontaneously over the whole area.These latter plants, with a planted line along the main trunk North railway line, are providing fruits which are wind-dispersed over the whole area. One of many plants on this site and elsewhere over the old railway workshop site and on the railway land. In my view this species is already a troublesome weed in dry shingly land about the Addington and Middleton Railway yards, and in nearby commercial properties where there is dry shingly waste land with little vegetative cover. My views on the present status of this plant and its future in the particular habitat have been made known to the Canterbury Regional Council on 6 March 1994.
Specimen notes
Voucher (DNA):
Leaf sample removed for DNA extraction
Miki Okada (DAV), 3 August 2004
Voucher (DNA):
Leaf tissue removed by Miki Okada, 2004 for DNA analysis for "Inferring the geographical origin of the invasive apomicitic grass Cortaderia jubata using microstellite markers."
Inpress, Diversity and Distributions, 2008.
UC Davis Centre for Plant Diversity
Voucher (DNA):
Sample taken for DNA extraction
D. Goeke, 16 Jun 2011