Systematics Collections Data

CHR 511766 – Ruschia Schwantes

Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 511766
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
06 March 1997
Database record updated:
12 December 2008
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Ruschia sp.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
2008-12-12 (Verbatim: 12-12-2008)
Preferred name:
Ruschia Schwantes
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Aizoaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Delosperma
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Delosperma N.E.Br.
Active:
no
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:
Packe Street, St Albans - Edgeware, Christchurch
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):  -43.51677  172.645022 
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 467/96
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
12-NOV-1996
Start date:
1996-11-12
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Cultivated in sheltered sunny site outside. Succulent subshrub, the main branches almost horizontal. Leaves tending erect, to c.4.8cm long, subterete, c.6mm wide, cylindrical, glaucous. Sepals triangular. Petals c.6mm long, yellow, oblanceolate. Stamens erect, forming a cone with the carpels. Filaments yellow, with white hair tuft basally. Plant ex Auckland Botanic Garden.
Specimen notes
Supplementary remarks:
Cannot name sp. No yellow-flowered ones mentioned in literature seen, but erect cone-like stamens must put it in Ruschia.
WR Sykes, 12 -12- 2008
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Reference:
CHR Collection - Local Contexts
Biocultural (BC) Notice